[Python-ideas] Add adaptive-load salt-mandatory hashing functions?

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 10:56:46 -0700
"Gregory P. Smith" <greg at krypto.org> wrote:
> I'd just stick it in hmac myself but getpass was also a good suggestion.
>  Cross reference to it from the docs of all three as the real goal of
> adding pbkdf2 is to advertise it to users so that they might use it rather
> than something more naive.
> 
> hashlib itself should be kept pure as is for standard low level hash
> algorithms.  It can't have a dependency on anything else.

I don't really understand this requirement. Can you elaborate?

Regards

Antoine.