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| author | Alex Stapleton <alexs@prol.etari.at> | 2013-12-21 15:16:57 +0000 |
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| committer | Alex Stapleton <alexs@prol.etari.at> | 2013-12-21 17:12:05 +0000 |
| commit | 1b1327cfe537b9e7bdc271239d1025c2479239c3 (patch) | |
| tree | 8a27a12313c0ba6ab6b62757d1332e18bac2df9c /docs/hazmat/primitives/cryptographic-hashes.rst | |
| parent | 9b9318d79ba5927603b120411d13b607938cae56 (diff) | |
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Raise UnsupportedAlgorithm when initing Hash()
Instead of just an AssertionError.
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diff --git a/docs/hazmat/primitives/cryptographic-hashes.rst b/docs/hazmat/primitives/cryptographic-hashes.rst index 90ca198a..38347378 100644 --- a/docs/hazmat/primitives/cryptographic-hashes.rst +++ b/docs/hazmat/primitives/cryptographic-hashes.rst @@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ Message Digests >>> digest.finalize() 'l\xa1=R\xcap\xc8\x83\xe0\xf0\xbb\x10\x1eBZ\x89\xe8bM\xe5\x1d\xb2\xd29%\x93\xafj\x84\x11\x80\x90' + If the backend doesn't support the requested ``algorithm`` an + :class:`~cryptography.exceptions.UnsupportedAlgorithm` will be raised. + Keep in mind that attacks against cryptographic hashes only get stronger with time, and that often algorithms that were once thought to be strong, become broken. Because of this it's important to include a plan for |