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Re:It's Dangerous, a Python cryptographic signing module by __alexs on Sunday June 10, 2012 @03:01PM (#4091851)
That's still a lot of code just to import a single 6 line function...
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Re:It's Dangerous, a Python cryptographic signing module by tptacek on Sunday June 10, 2012 @03:03PM (#4091860)
The fact that he knew about that function and you (standing in as "representative Python developer") did not seems to justify the library pretty nicely from what I can tell.

But, obviously, this code does more than Python's hmac library does, beyond just knowing how to properly verify the MAC itself.

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Re:It's Dangerous, a Python cryptographic signing module by __alexs on Sunday June 10, 2012 @03:38PM (#4091948)
I wasn't criticising the security of this library, I was criticising it's reason to exist in the form that it does.
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Re:It's Dangerous, a Python cryptographic signing module by pmylund on Sunday June 10, 2012 @03:57PM (#4092009)
Nice save.
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