[Python-Dev] Should secrets include a fallback for hmac.compare_digest?

[Victor Stinner]

2016-04-15 11:21 GMT+02:00 Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>:
> This isn't just a question about the secrets module. PEP 399 suggests
> than any C classes/functions should have a pure Python version as
> fallback, but compare_digest doesn't. I don't know whether it should or
> not.

The hmac module is responsible to providing a fallback, not the secrets module.

Victor