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Cryptographic Services</a> »</li> </ul> </div> <div class="document"> <div class="documentwrapper"> <div class="bodywrapper"> <div class="body"> <div class="section" id="module-hmac"> <span id="hmac-keyed-hashing-for-message-authentication"></span><h1>14.2. <a class="reference internal" href="#module-hmac" title="hmac: Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication (HMAC) implementation for Python."><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">hmac</span></tt></a> — Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication<a class="headerlink" href="#module-hmac" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1> <p class="versionadded"> <span class="versionmodified">New in version 2.2.</span></p> <p><strong>Source code:</strong> <a class="reference external" href="http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2.7/Lib/hmac.py">Lib/hmac.py</a></p> <hr class="docutils" /> <p>This module implements the HMAC algorithm as described by <span class="target" id="index-0"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2104.html"><strong>RFC 2104</strong></a>.</p> <dl class="function"> <dt id="hmac.new"> <tt class="descclassname">hmac.</tt><tt class="descname">new</tt><big>(</big><em>key</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>msg</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>digestmod</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#hmac.new" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Return a new hmac object. If <em>msg</em> is present, the method call <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">update(msg)</span></tt> is made. <em>digestmod</em> is the digest constructor or module for the HMAC object to use. It defaults to the <tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">hashlib.md5()</span></tt> constructor.</p> </dd></dl> <p>An HMAC object has the following methods:</p> <dl class="method"> <dt id="hmac.HMAC.update"> <tt class="descclassname">HMAC.</tt><tt class="descname">update</tt><big>(</big><em>msg</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#hmac.HMAC.update" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Update the hmac object with the string <em>msg</em>. Repeated calls are equivalent to a single call with the concatenation of all the arguments: <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">m.update(a);</span> <span class="pre">m.update(b)</span></tt> is equivalent to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">m.update(a</span> <span class="pre">+</span> <span class="pre">b)</span></tt>.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="hmac.HMAC.digest"> <tt class="descclassname">HMAC.</tt><tt class="descname">digest</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#hmac.HMAC.digest" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Return the digest of the strings passed to the <a class="reference internal" href="#hmac.HMAC.update" title="hmac.HMAC.update"><tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">update()</span></tt></a> method so far. This string will be the same length as the <em>digest_size</em> of the digest given to the constructor. It may contain non-ASCII characters, including NUL bytes.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="hmac.HMAC.hexdigest"> <tt class="descclassname">HMAC.</tt><tt class="descname">hexdigest</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#hmac.HMAC.hexdigest" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Like <a class="reference internal" href="#hmac.HMAC.digest" title="hmac.HMAC.digest"><tt class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><span class="pre">digest()</span></tt></a> except the digest is returned as a string twice the length containing only hexadecimal digits. This may be used to exchange the value safely in email or other non-binary environments.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="hmac.HMAC.copy"> <tt class="descclassname">HMAC.</tt><tt class="descname">copy</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#hmac.HMAC.copy" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Return a copy (“clone”) of the hmac object. 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