On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 19:19:44 +0200 Christian Heimes <christian at python.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I have written a interface to OpenSSL's PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC() function. It > implements PKCS#5's password based key derivation function 2 with HMAC > as pseudo-random function. It supports any digest that is supported by > OpenSSL, e.g. SHA-1, SHA-256 and SHA-512. It's a low level inteface that > takes the digest as unicode name, password and salt as bytes/buffer, > keylen and rounds as int. > > I'd like to add the feature to Python 3.4. Now I'm looking for a good > place to put it and some high level functions. In the future I like to > add scrypt and bcrypt key stretching and key derivation functions, too. > What's a good place for them?? > > * add a new ``kdf`` module (key derivation function) > * add PBKDF2 to ``hashlib`` > * make ``hashlib`` a package and add PBKDF2 to a new ``hashlib.kdf`` module > * make ``hashlib`` a package and add PBKDF2 to a new ``hashlib.pbkdf2`` > module > * make ``crypt`` work under Windows and add PKBDF2 to it Putting it in "hashlib" sounds fine. There's no reason to create a myriad of small separate modules. Regards Antoine.
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