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| author | Mathijs Mortimer <thiezn@users.noreply.github.com> | 2024-05-22 08:51:25 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2024-05-22 08:51:25 (GMT) |
| commit | 5adf78f546a5dc3f5b8eeaa209a2e8437ae96ac8 (patch) | |
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Clarify that dklen is expected in bytes for the hashlib functions (GH-106624)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/hashlib.rst b/Doc/library/hashlib.rst index 8cf413f..5d24b77e 100644 --- a/Doc/library/hashlib.rst +++ b/Doc/library/hashlib.rst @@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ include a `salt <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_%28cryptography%29>`_. your application, read *Appendix A.2.2* of NIST-SP-800-132_. The answers on the `stackexchange pbkdf2 iterations question`_ explain in detail. - *dklen* is the length of the derived key. If *dklen* is ``None`` then the + *dklen* is the length of the derived key in bytes. If *dklen* is ``None`` then the digest size of the hash algorithm *hash_name* is used, e.g. 64 for SHA-512. >>> from hashlib import pbkdf2_hmac @@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ include a `salt <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_%28cryptography%29>`_. *n* is the CPU/Memory cost factor, *r* the block size, *p* parallelization factor and *maxmem* limits memory (OpenSSL 1.1.0 defaults to 32 MiB). - *dklen* is the length of the derived key. + *dklen* is the length of the derived key in bytes. .. versionadded:: 3.6 |