[Python-Dev] Right place for PBKDF2 wrapper

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun Oct 13 14:00:36 CEST 2013


On 13 October 2013 20:39, Christian Heimes <christian at python.org> wrote:
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> Am 13.10.2013 08:32, schrieb Nick Coghlan:
>> +1 to hashlib from me (especially since we used that as the best
>> available home for compare_digest).
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> I'm afraid your memory doesn't serve you well. :(
> compare_digest is implemented in _operator.c. Its official home is
> hmac.compare_digest.

*sigh* Well, we knew that was an unintuitive home when we picked it :P

We'll get the standard library's crypto APIs to a sensible state some day :)

Cheers,
Nick.

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