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@tiran tiran commented Dec 27, 2017

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 [email protected]

https://bugs.python.org/issue32433

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I realize digestmod matches the parameter name in hmac.new, but it is an antiquated name from the days when the only two hash functions were top level modules. how about just calling it digest on the new API?

Are there any hash function modules with a new method left anywhere that anyone actually uses? Why continue to support that old idiom in new APIs?

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I though about it but then decided to keep the new function compatible to the old PEP.

Since you also dislike the old name, let's use digest in the new function.

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from unittest import mock
...
with mock.patch('hmac._openssl_md_meths', {}):
  ...

@tiran tiran force-pushed the fast_hmac branch 2 times, most recently from 0100b1c to 7fd218c Compare January 14, 2018 14:32
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tiran commented Jan 26, 2018

@gpshead Are you ok with the new code? I'd like to get the feature into 3.7.

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a couple comments, you can address those in this PR or in follow up minor commits as you see fit.

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describe the parameters so that interactive users doing help(hmac.digest) see something useful.

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Is the "for short messages" part true? does anything care how long the message is? I'd just trim those words from the sentence. :)

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"short" for some arbitrary measurement. After all the message has to fit into memory. Anything up to 64kB should be fine. :p

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 <[email protected]>
@tiran tiran merged commit 2f050c7 into python:master Jan 27, 2018
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@tiran: Please replace # with GH- in the commit message next time. Thanks!

@tiran tiran deleted the fast_hmac branch January 27, 2018 08:53
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