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| author | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2014-02-26 18:07:21 (GMT) |
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| committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2014-02-26 18:07:21 (GMT) |
| commit | 9251d59523f64fa789c5ec4e68290644fbde1021 (patch) | |
| tree | 91872a1c01c37fa1c38eab2fcf5cd0e6f46029ae | |
| parent | d2d81f016348b359888e7198371d7597aa8831b0 (diff) | |
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whatsnew: expand pbkdf2_hmac entry slightly.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst index f9e5b2a..997afc4 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst @@ -757,8 +757,10 @@ dictionaries containing the collections statistics since interpreter startup. hashlib ------- -New :func:`hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac` function. (Contributed by Christian Heimes in -:issue:`18582`) +A new :func:`hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac` function provides +the `PKCS#5 password-based key derivation function 2 +<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2>`_. (Contributed by Christian +Heimes in :issue:`18582`) The :attr:`~hashlib.hash.name` attribute of :mod:`hashlib` hash objects is now a formally supported interface. It has always existed in CPython's |