Message 47773 - Python tracker
The md5 and sha (sha1) modules should use OpenSSL for the algorithms when it is available as its implementations are much faster than pythons own. Attached is an initial patch to use OpenSSL for the sha module. Its not ready for committing as is yet, but it is setup to be a generic base for all OpenSSL hashes with a little bit of work in the future. Tossing this out there for people to see how trivial it is and enjoy the speedups. diff is against HEAD but it should apply to 2.4 just fine.