pbkdf2_hmac

The function provides PKCS5 password-based key derivation function 2. It uses HMAC as pseudorandom function.

Syntax

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hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac(hash_name, password, salt, iterations, dklen=None)

Examples

Example 1

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>>> from hashlib import pbkdf2_hmac
>>> our_app_iters = 500_000   Application specific, read above.
>>> dk = pbkdf2_hmac('sha256', b'password', b'bad salt'*2, our_app_iters)
>>> dk.hex()
'15530bba69924174860db778f2c6f8104d3aaf9d26241840c8c4a641c8d000a9'

See Also

os.urandom() hmac