From 1524d7556dd235336f1f02eeed3b82e9dc68dc2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Antoine Pitrou Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 16:18:48 +0200 Subject: Formatting --- Doc/library/hmac.rst | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/hmac.rst b/Doc/library/hmac.rst index ce93cbc..877f3b7 100644 --- a/Doc/library/hmac.rst +++ b/Doc/library/hmac.rst @@ -72,10 +72,10 @@ This module also provides the following helper function: Return ``a == b``. This function uses an approach designed to prevent timing analysis by avoiding content based short circuiting behaviour, making it - appropriate for cryptography. *a* and *b* - must both be of the same type: either :class:`str` (ASCII only, as e.g. - returned by :meth:`HMAC.hexdigest`), or any type that supports the - buffer protocol (e.g. :class:`bytes`). + appropriate for cryptography. *a* and *b* must both be of the same type: + either :class:`str` (ASCII only, as e.g. returned by + :meth:`HMAC.hexdigest`), or any type that supports the buffer protocol + (e.g. :class:`bytes`). Using a short circuiting comparison (that is, one that terminates as soon as it finds any difference between the values) to check digests for correctness -- cgit v0.12