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

Christian Heimes christian at python.org
Sat Oct 12 23:31:21 CEST 2013

Am 12.10.2013 23:04, schrieb Gregory P. Smith:

agreed with any of these three.

I'm going for hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac() for now. Right now it's just one function. We can always add a new module for a high level interface later.

that also makes sense...

I'd leave hmac.py around through at least 3.6 but going ahead and moving the implementation into hashlib in 3.4 makes sense.

That gives us the opportunity th provide a faster implementation based on OpenSSL's HMAC API http://www.openssl.org/docs/crypto/hmac.html . I'm also tempted to provide a fast one-shot-wonder function that returns the MAC as bytes: hmac(name, key, value) -> result

Christian

More information about the Python-Dev mailing list