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MD5 are not considered reliable anymore. The present approach upgrades The Lib to use SHA512 to Generate Secure Hash and if there is a need for extreme secure measure Enable the comment for "pbkdf2_hmac" and it can even provide security against Brute Force attacks. More Information here: About pbkdf2_hmac : https://docs.python.org/2/library/hashlib.html#hashlib.hashlib.algorithms MD5: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/19906/is-md5-considered-insecure, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16713810/how-secure-is-md5-and-sha1
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MD5 are not considered reliable anymore. The present approach upgrades The Lib to use SHA512 to Generate Secure Hash and if there is a need for extreme secure measure Enable the comment for "pbkdf2_hmac" and it can even provide security against Brute Force attacks.
More Information here:
About pbkdf2_hmac : https://docs.python.org/2/library/hashlib.html#hashlib.hashlib.algorithms
MD5: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/19906/is-md5-considered-insecure, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16713810/how-secure-is-md5-and-sha1