These algorithm names were confusing, because there are actually
algorithms called "SHA" (a.k.a. SHA-0) and "RIPEMD" (the original
version).
This commit adds backward-compatibility support for the old
Crypto.Hash.SHA and Crypto.Hash.RIPEMD modules.
These algorithm names were confusing, because there are actually
algorithms called "SHA" (a.k.a. SHA-0) and "RIPEMD" (the original
version).
This commit just renames the modules, with no backward-compatibility
support.
(as submitted here https://bugs.launchpad.net/pycrypto/+bug/544792)
so that they are available also in Python 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4.
Regardless where the implementation comes from (Python standard
library or our native modules, depending on the Python version),
all Crypto.Hash objects are always used as front-ends.
From what I can tell, the authors of these files are:
- Andrew Kuchling (who has dedicated his contributions to the public domain);
and/or
- Dwayne Litzenberger (myself).
This will avoid the previous situation where scripts like the old "test.py"
get included accidentally in a release. It also frees us to put additional
build scripts in the top-level directory of the source tree.
