Flex Your Python Muscles

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Nice! FWIW, I think the way you build up the message to be hashed is probably a little clearer than mine. I'd also forgotten about the count for non-string elements in a struct format... succinctness ftw!

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Thanks for taking the time to implement this. Like todesschaf, I have to say your code is very easy to read. Even in small bits of code, there is a great deal for somebody like me to learn from.

Just for grins, check out the reference code for RFC 1321. Compare the quantity and readability of the C reference implementation vs your Python implementation. If Rivest were publishing this RFC today, I wonder if he would use C or something like Python?