14th February 2024
TIL
Getting Python MD5 to work with FIPS systems
— [This issue](https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2270) by Parand Darugar pointed out that Datasette doesn't currently run on Linux systems with FIPS enabled, due to the way it uses MD5 hashes.
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