high-performance HMAC module

"Jason R. Mastaler" <[email protected]> Wed, 29 May 2002 02:40:07 +0430

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.python.cryptography
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I'm currently using a pure Python HMAC implementation in one of my
applications based on the one in Paul Rubin's p2.py[1].

This application does lots of HMAC manipulation, and I wonder if it
would be worth writing an HMAC module in C.  On the other hand, I
wonder how much this would really speed things up since the underlying
hash function modules (sha, md5) are already written in C.

Any ideas?

Footnotes:
1.  http://www.nightsong.com/phr/crypto/p2.py

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