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33 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Christian Heimes 2f050c7e1b
bpo-32433: Optimized HMAC digest (#5023)
The hmac module now has hmac.digest(), which provides an optimized HMAC
digest for short messages. hmac.digest() is up to three times faster
than hmac.HMAC().digest().

Signed-off-by: Christian Heimes <christian@python.org>
2018-01-27 09:53:43 +01:00
Martin Panter 357ed2e577 Change double hyphens (en dashes) to em (longer) dashes 2016-11-21 00:15:20 +00:00
Terry Jan Reedy fa089b9b0b Issue #22558: Add remaining doc links to source code for Python-coded modules.
Reformat header above separator line (added if missing) to a common format.
Patch by Yoni Lavi.
2016-06-11 15:02:54 -04:00
Benjamin Peterson d9ede872cd that this is "for Python" is obvious 2015-06-05 21:03:08 -05:00
Berker Peksag 740c730086 Issues #21948 and #16040: Fix typos. 2014-07-09 20:15:28 +03:00
Larry Hastings 3732ed2414 Merge in all documentation changes since branching 3.4.0rc1. 2014-03-15 21:13:56 -07:00
Christian Heimes c4ab11050d Issue #18775: Add name and block_size attribute to HMAC object. They now
provide the same API elements as non-keyed cryptographic hash functions.
2013-11-20 17:35:06 +01:00
Christian Heimes 634919a9fa Issue #17276: MD5 as default digestmod for HMAC is deprecated. The HMAC
module supports digestmod names, e.g. hmac.HMAC('sha1').
2013-11-20 17:23:06 +01:00
Georg Brandl 808ddaa3ec merge with 3.3 2013-10-06 09:49:18 +02:00
Georg Brandl 74883a3751 Fix markup to not add parens to the "hashlib.md5" constructor when the object is meant, not the call. 2013-10-06 09:48:47 +02:00
Christian Heimes 04926aeb2f Issue 18240: The HMAC module is no longer restricted to bytes and accepts
any bytes-like object, e.g. memoryview. Original patch by Jonas Borgström.
2013-07-01 13:08:42 +02:00
Ezio Melotti c228e96726 #16518: use "bytes-like object" throughout the docs. 2013-05-04 18:06:34 +03:00
Larry Hastings 48986d68c2 Minor grammar refinement for hmac.compare_digest(). 2012-06-25 00:59:34 -07:00
Antoine Pitrou 5f762af3bc Remove a detailed discussion of content-based short circuiting, off topic for library docs. 2012-06-24 16:23:54 +02:00
Antoine Pitrou f61e7910ea Simplify wording. 2012-06-24 16:21:10 +02:00
Antoine Pitrou 1524d7556d Formatting 2012-06-24 16:18:48 +02:00
Georg Brandl ae64b4d8e2 Merge heads. 2012-06-24 16:11:23 +02:00
Georg Brandl 3b44d81cf9 Merge heads. 2012-06-24 16:10:47 +02:00
Georg Brandl a1bc35f07f Improve hmac.compare_digest() docstring and documentation, courtesy of Larry H. 2012-06-24 16:07:33 +02:00
Antoine Pitrou 4f9946874b The buffer protocol doesn't exist (in the glossary anyway). 2012-06-24 16:04:38 +02:00
Antoine Pitrou 9df73dac84 Larry's suggested rewording of the compare_digest() docs. 2012-06-24 16:03:50 +02:00
Christian Heimes 6cea65555c Issue #15061: Re-implemented hmac.compare_digest() in C 2012-06-24 13:48:32 +02:00
Nick Coghlan 807770ec1b Issue #15061: Don't oversell the capabilities of the new non-shortcircuiting comparison function in hmac 2012-06-15 21:14:08 +10:00
Charles-François Natali 9b704ec9e1 Add versionadded for hmac.secure_compare(). 2012-05-15 21:00:32 +02:00
Charles-François Natali 7feb9f4225 Issue #14532: Add a secure_compare() helper to the hmac module, to mitigate
timing attacks. Patch by Jon Oberheide.
2012-05-13 19:53:07 +02:00
Georg Brandl 9701eb6e14 Closes #13944: fix capitalization of class name. 2012-02-05 09:25:22 +01:00
Raymond Hettinger 469271d4ea More source links 2011-01-27 20:38:46 +00:00
Georg Brandl 531d76b096 #5212: md5 weaknesses do not affect hmac, so remove the note about that. 2010-10-17 10:09:06 +00:00
Georg Brandl 80b75fd288 Fix hmac docs: it takes and returns bytes, except for hexdigest(). 2010-10-17 09:43:35 +00:00
Ezio Melotti 0639d5aeb6 Merged revisions 76904 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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2009-12-19 23:26:38 +00:00
Georg Brandl 036490d025 More conversion to new-style optional args. 2009-05-17 13:00:36 +00:00
Georg Brandl 55ac8f0f26 Get rid of the remaining versionadded/versionchanged directives. 2007-09-01 13:51:09 +00:00
Georg Brandl 116aa62bf5 Move the 3k reST doc tree in place. 2007-08-15 14:28:22 +00:00