On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 19:19:44 +0200 Christian Heimes <christ...@python.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I have written a interface to OpenSSL's PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC() 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?? > > * add a new ``kdf`` module (key derivation function) > * 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 > * make ``crypt`` work under Windows and add PKBDF2 to it
Putting it in "hashlib" sounds fine. There's no reason to create a myriad of small separate modules. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
