https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a02cf19deed353d1e0e7564468f10aced61c12e8 commit: a02cf19deed353d1e0e7564468f10aced61c12e8 branch: main author: Bénédikt Tran <[email protected]> committer: picnixz <[email protected]> date: 2025-07-15T14:03:21+02:00 summary:
gh-72570: mention the incompatibility of XOFs with HMAC (#136676) files: M Doc/library/hmac.rst diff --git a/Doc/library/hmac.rst b/Doc/library/hmac.rst index d6692033b2d4c3..57076c38086c79 100644 --- a/Doc/library/hmac.rst +++ b/Doc/library/hmac.rst @@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ -------------- This module implements the HMAC algorithm as described by :rfc:`2104`. +The interface allows to use any hash function with a *fixed* digest size. +In particular, extendable output functions such as SHAKE-128 or SHAKE-256 +cannot be used with HMAC. .. function:: new(key, msg=None, digestmod) _______________________________________________ Python-checkins mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/python-checkins.python.org Member address: [email protected]
