[Python-Dev] Right place for PBKDF2 wrapper (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Sat Oct 12 22:31:52 CEST 2013

On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Christian Heimes <christian at python.org>wrote:

Hi,

I have written a interface to OpenSSL's PKCS5PBKDF2HMAC() function. It implements PKCS#5's password based key derivation function 2 with HMAC as pseudo-random function. It supports any digest that is supported by OpenSSL, e.g. SHA-1, SHA-256 and SHA-512. It's a low level inteface that takes the digest as unicode name, password and salt as bytes/buffer, keylen and rounds as int. I'd like to add the feature to Python 3.4. Now I'm looking for a good place to put it and some high level functions. In the future I like to add scrypt and bcrypt key stretching and key derivation functions, too. What's a good place for them?? [SNIP] * add PBKDF2 to hashlib * make hashlib a package and add PBKDF2 to a new hashlib.kdf module * make hashlib a package and add PBKDF2 to a new hashlib.pbkdf2 module

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