[Python-Dev] PEPs in progress

[Christian Heimes]

Am 02.01.2013 11:11, schrieb Antoine Pitrou:
>> PKCS #1 support should be implemented on top of OpenSSL or NaCl. I'm
>> planing to use OpenSSL as primary implementation and additional code
>> as fallback implementation of PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA-1, PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA-256
>> and PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA-512.
> 
> Does PBKDF2-SHA3 exist?

No HMAC-SHA-3 or PBKDF2-SHA-3 yet. The different design may require
different MAC and KDF functions. At least the sponge design isn't
vulnerable to length extension attacks like Merkle-Damgard
constructions, which removes the need for HMAC-SHA-3.