okay it appears there are no suspect patent issues with ripemd160 so either they just didn't include it for some other reason or the issue is elsewhere.
On 02/03/2016 03:00 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
well, how about compiling instance to another directory like /opt/python-alternative?
usually works like ./configure --prefix=/opt/python-alternative and then other normal stuff..
-- Eero
2016-02-03 12:52 GMT+02:00 Alice Wonder alice@domblogger.net:
Hi - I think the patent monster has struck again.
rmd = hashlib.new('ripemd160',binascii.unhexlify(someString)).hexdigest()
That fails - ValueError: unsupported hash type
From some googling, it appears that the supported hash types are from OpenSSL and that means the OpenSSL in CentOS doesn't support ripemd160.
I've worked around other stuff missing from CentOS OpenSSL by building LibreSSL and linking against that but python is central to the operation of CentOS and I do not want to mess with replacing the CentOS packaging of python.
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