Re: high-performance HMAC module
Paul Lambert <[email protected]>
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> would be worth writing an HMAC module in C. No, not for this purpose. It would be better to move to a real encryption algorithm (like AES) written in C than to use p2. Paul > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason R. Mastaler [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 3:10 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: high-performance HMAC module > > > 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 > > -- > (http://tmda.sourceforge.net/) >