From: Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 01:02:13 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Clarify that md5 is in the algorithms_guaranteed list despite what
X-Git-Tag: v3.6.0a2~33^2
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Clarify that md5 is in the algorithms_guaranteed list despite what
some upstream vendors may do to their odd "FIPS compliant" builds.
issue15468.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/hashlib.rst b/Doc/library/hashlib.rst
index 085f99d0dc28..93bcc91f91dd 100644
--- a/Doc/library/hashlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/hashlib.rst
@@ -104,7 +104,9 @@ Hashlib provides the following constant attributes:
 .. data:: algorithms_guaranteed
 
    A set containing the names of the hash algorithms guaranteed to be supported
-   by this module on all platforms.
+   by this module on all platforms.  Note that 'md5' is in this list despite
+   some upstream vendors offering an odd "FIPS compliant" Python build that
+   excludes it.
 
    .. versionadded:: 3.2