hmac module and key format

[Peter Pearson]

On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 04:01:20 -0800, Paul Rubin <no.email at nospam.invalid> wrote:
> Stuart Longland <redhatter at gentoo.org> writes:
>> What format does hmac require the key to be in?
>
> It's an arbitrary string.  
>
>     I have a key in hexadecimal, do I give it the hex?  Do I decode that
>     to binary and give it that?  
>
> Probably yes.  Do you have test vectors?  See if they work.

Test case from http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2104.html :


  key =         0x0b0b0b0b0b0b0b0b0b0b0b0b0b0b0b0b
  key_len =     16 bytes
  data =        "Hi There"
  data_len =    8  bytes
  digest =      0x9294727a3638bb1c13f48ef8158bfc9d

Using the hmac module:

>>> hmac.hmac_md5( "Hi There", 16*"\x0b" )
'\x92\x94rz68\xbb\x1c\x13\xf4\x8e\xf8\x15\x8b\xfc\x9d'


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