HMAC with RIPEMD-160

[Chris Rebert]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 4:21 AM, Kless <jonas.esp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Is there any way of use HMAC with RIPEMD-160?
>
> Since that to create a ripemd-160 hash there is to use:
>    h = hashlib.new('ripemd160')
> it looks that isn't possible
>
> For HMAC-SHA256 would be:
> ---------
> import hashlib
> import hmac
>
> hm = hmac.new('key', msg='message', digestmod=hashlib.sha256)

Untested, but should work according to the docs:
hm = hmac.new('key', msg='message', digestmod=lambda: hashlib.new('ripemd160'))

Cheers,
Chris

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