Use secure hash algorithm in WebConfiguration.sign_text
Fix: PendingDeprecationWarning: HMAC() without an explicit digestmod argument is deprecated.
The default hash algorithm used by hmac.new is md5. As of today, md5 is so weak
that it's the equivalent of plaintext and can't be considered to be secured at all.
Therefor, we switch to a secure hash algorithm.
The rational for choosing sha3_512 is:
* the recommended algorithm is at least sha_256
* the stronger, the more secured and sha3_512 is the stronger available
* thinking about the future this should keep this part of the code safe long
enough before people think about checking it again
You can read more about choosing a secure hash algorithm in the NIST
recommendations https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/Hash-Functions/NIST-Policy-on-Hash-Functions
This code modification should normally be transparent since check_text_sign is
exactly this code 'self.sign_text(text) == signature' and that sign_text is
only used in combination with it. The only impact is that the hash is going to
move from 32 char to 128 which might make html page a bit bigger and that
sha3_512 is slow to compute (which is a good thing for security)
.. -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
The development team is pleased to announce the 3.0.0 release of CubicWeb, also
know as ShowTime.
What is CubicWeb?
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With CubicWeb, the Semantic Web is a construction game!
CubicWeb_ is a semantic web application framework, licensed under the LGPL, that
empowers developers to efficiently build web applications by reusing components
(called cubes) and following the well known object-oriented design principles.
Its main features are:
* an engine driven by the explicit data model of the application,
* a query language named RQL similar to W3C’s SPARQL,
* a selection+view mechanism for semi-automatic XHTML/XML/JSON/text generation,
* a library of reusable components (data model and views) that fulfill common needs,
* the power and flexibility of the Python programming language,
* the reliability of SQL databases, LDAP directories, Subversion and Mercurial for storage backends.
Being built since 2000 by an R&D project still going on today, supporting
100,000s of daily visits at some production sites, CubicWeb is a proven end to
end solution for semantic web application development that promotes quality,
reusability and efficiency.
The unbeliever will read the quick overview_ of CubicWeb.
The hacker will join development at the forge_.
The impatient will move right away to installation_ and set-up of a CubicWeb
environment.
.. _cubicweb: https://www.cubicweb.org/
.. _overview: https://docs.cubicweb.org/tutorials/base/index.html
.. _forge: https://www.cubicweb.org/project?vtitle=All%20cubicweb%20projects
.. _installation: https://docs.cubicweb.org/book/admin/setup.html#setupenv
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