[Python-Dev] cpython: Issue #18582: provide a faster C implementation of pbkdf2_hmac that works with

Christian Heimes christian at python.org
Sat Oct 19 18:05:35 CEST 2013


Am 19.10.2013 16:59, schrieb Antoine Pitrou:
> But that's a fringe situation. Any normal build of Python should be
> compiled with OpenSSL support (and any decent binary build is). I think
> the mention in the docs is distracting and will create pointless
> uncertainty in the reader.

HMAC_CTX_copy() is not available in OpenSSL < 1.0. My optimized code
won't run on OpenSSL 0.9.8. IMHO it's important to understand that some
code may complete in ~100ms instead of ~30ms.



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