On Feb 21, 4:59 am, Peter Pearson ppear...@nowhere.invalid wrote:
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 04:01:20 -0800, Paul Rubin no.em...@nospam.invalid
wrote:
Stuart Longland redhat...@gentoo.org writes:
What format does hmac require the key to be in?
It's an arbitrary string.
I have a key in
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 02:27:36 -0800 (PST), Stuart Longland wrote:
[snip]
Before I worried about that though, I needed to have some kind of
understanding as to how the hmac module was used. Arbitrary string,
sounds to me like I give it something akin to a passphrase, and that
is hashed(?) to
Hi,
Maybe I'm completely dense with regards to the hmac module and HMAC in
general, but I've searched and cannot find for the life of me the
answer to this very basic question.
What format does hmac require the key to be in?
I have a key in hexadecimal, do I give it the hex? Do I decode that
Stuart Longland redhat...@gentoo.org writes:
What format does hmac require the key to be in?
It's an arbitrary string.
I have a key in hexadecimal, do I give it the hex? Do I decode that
to binary and give it that?
Probably yes. Do you have test vectors? See if they work.
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On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 04:01:20 -0800, Paul Rubin no.email@nospam.invalid wrote:
Stuart Longland redhat...@gentoo.org writes:
What format does hmac require the key to be in?
It's an arbitrary string.
I have a key in hexadecimal, do I give it the hex? Do I decode that
to binary and
