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| author | Christian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de> | 2013-10-19 12:24:44 (GMT) |
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| committer | Christian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de> | 2013-10-19 12:24:44 (GMT) |
| commit | e723622775172a2516f43721d998aae95f32e59d (patch) | |
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Issue #18582: provide a faster C implementation of pbkdf2_hmac that works with OpenSSL < 1.0
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diff --git a/Doc/library/hashlib.rst b/Doc/library/hashlib.rst index 677d530..b1daba1 100644 --- a/Doc/library/hashlib.rst +++ b/Doc/library/hashlib.rst @@ -212,11 +212,9 @@ slow and include a salt. .. versionadded:: 3.4 - .. note:: A fast implementation of *pbkdf2_hmac* is only available with - OpenSSL 1.0 and newer. The Python implementation uses an inline - version of :mod:`hmac` and is about three times slower. Contrary to - OpenSSL's current code the length of the password has only a minimal - impact on the runtime of the Python implementation. + .. note:: A fast implementation of *pbkdf2_hmac* is available with OpenSSL. + The Python implementation uses an inline version of :mod:`hmac`. It is + about three times slower and doesn't release the GIL. .. seealso:: |