from pycryptopp import _import_my_names # These initializations to None are just to pacify pyflakes, which # doesn't understand that we have to do some funky import trickery # below in _import_my_names() in order to get sensible namespaces. SHA256=None Error=None _import_my_names(globals(), "sha256_") del _import_my_names def start_up_self_test(): """ This is a quick test intended to detect major errors such as the library being miscompiled and segfaulting or returning incorrect answers. We've had problems of that kind many times, thus justifying running this self-test on import. This idea was suggested to me by the second edition of "Practical Cryptography" by Ferguson, Schneier, and Kohno. This test was copied from pycryptopp/test/test_sha256.py on 2010-09-04. This test takes up to 1.5 milliseconds on a VirtualBox instance on my Macbook Pro (fast 64-bit Intel dual-core). Test that updating a hasher with various sized inputs yields the expected answer. This is somewhat redundant with test_chunksize(), but that's okay. This one exercises some slightly different situations (such as finalizing a hash after different length inputs.) This one is recursive so that there is a single fixed result that we expect. """ hx = SHA256() s = ''.join([ chr(c) for c in range(65) ]) for i in range(0, 65): hy = SHA256(s[:i]).digest() hx.update(hy) for i in range(0, 65): hx.update(chr(0xFE)) hx.update(s[:64]) if hx.hexdigest().lower() != '5191c7841dd4e16aa454d40af924585dffc67157ffdbfd0236acddd07901629d': raise Error("pycryptopp failed startup self-test. Please run pycryptopp unit tests.") start_up_self_test()