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gistfile1.txt

# {"traits":
#      ["Careful", "Curious", "Methodical", "Driven", "Cooperative"],
#  "key": "Wutwut-abc123ed",
#  "meta":
#      {"description": "Enclosed are some traits that great engineers exhibit. Using the key, make a "
#                      "JSON array using the hex digest of the blake2b hash for each trait "
#                      "(digest size=64). POST it back to the endpoint. If the hashes are "
#                      "correct you will get a Verification ID."}
#  }


import requests
from hashlib import blake2b

#Note: This is not a suitable solution for production, for a variety of reasons.
#Most notably, the requests library uses urllib3 under the hood, which only supports Open SSL 1.1.1
response = requests.get("https://api.somebusinessname.com/buildstuff", auth=None)
data = response.json()
traits = data["traits"]
key = data["key"]

def hashing_digester(trait):
    trait_hash = blake2b(trait.encode(), digest_size=64, key=key.encode())
    return trait_hash.hexdigest()

digests = list(map(hashing_digester, traits))
result = requests.post("https://api.somebusinessname.com/buildstuff", json=digests)

print(result.text)