Am 12.10.2013 19:37, schrieb Antoine Pitrou: > 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.
Maybe it's a good idea to expose HMAC through hashlib as well, and deprecate the standalone module at some point? Georg _______________________________________________ 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
