Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

I don't know how you intend to make `digestmod` mandatory given the current 
function signature.

> Applications should slowly migrate away from HMAC-MD5 and use a more
> modern algorithm like HMAC-SHA256.

Applications don't always choose their cipher. MD5 is needed for compatibility 
with existing protocols such as CRAM-MD5.

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