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href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2104.html"><strong>RFC 2104</strong></a>.212The interface allows to use any hash function with a <em>fixed</em> digest size.213In particular, extendable output functions such as SHAKE-128 or SHAKE-256214cannot be used with HMAC.</p>215<dl class="py function">216<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="hmac.new">217<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">hmac.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">new</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">key</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">msg=None</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">digestmod</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#hmac.new" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>218<dd><p>Return a new hmac object. <em>key</em> is a bytes or bytearray object giving the219secret key. If <em>msg</em> is present, the method call <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">update(msg)</span></code> is made.220<em>digestmod</em> is the digest name, digest constructor or module for the HMAC221object to use. It may be any name suitable to <a class="reference internal" href="hashlib.html#hashlib.new" title="hashlib.new"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">hashlib.new()</span></code></a>.222Despite its argument position, it is required.</p>223<div class="versionchanged">224<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.4: </span>Parameter <em>key</em> can be a bytes or bytearray object.225Parameter <em>msg</em> can be of any type supported by <a class="reference internal" href="hashlib.html#module-hashlib" title="hashlib: Secure hash and message digest algorithms."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">hashlib</span></code></a>.226Parameter <em>digestmod</em> can be the name of a hash algorithm.</p>227</div>228<div class="versionchanged">229<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.8: </span>The <em>digestmod</em> argument is now required. Pass it as a keyword230argument to avoid awkwardness when you do not have an initial <em>msg</em>.</p>231</div>232</dd></dl>233 234<dl class="py function">235<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="hmac.digest">236<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">hmac.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">digest</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">key</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">msg</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">digest</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#hmac.digest" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>237<dd><p>Return digest of <em>msg</em> for given secret <em>key</em> and <em>digest</em>. The238function is equivalent to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">HMAC(key,</span> <span class="pre">msg,</span> <span class="pre">digest).digest()</span></code>, but239uses an optimized C or inline implementation, which is faster for messages240that fit into memory. The parameters <em>key</em>, <em>msg</em>, and <em>digest</em> have241the same meaning as in <a class="reference internal" href="#hmac.new" title="hmac.new"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">new()</span></code></a>.</p>242<p>CPython implementation detail, the optimized C implementation is only used243when <em>digest</em> is a string and name of a digest algorithm, which is244supported by OpenSSL.</p>245<div class="versionadded">246<p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.7.</span></p>247</div>248</dd></dl>249 250<dl class="py class">251<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="hmac.HMAC">252<em class="property"><span class="k"><span class="pre">class</span></span><span class="w"> </span></em><span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">hmac.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">HMAC</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#hmac.HMAC" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>253<dd><p>An HMAC object has the following methods:</p>254</dd></dl>255 256<dl class="py method">257<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="hmac.HMAC.update">258<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">HMAC.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">update</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">msg</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#hmac.HMAC.update" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>259<dd><p>Update the hmac object with <em>msg</em>. Repeated calls are equivalent to a260single call with the concatenation of all the arguments:261<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">m.update(a);</span> <span class="pre">m.update(b)</span></code> is equivalent to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">m.update(a</span> <span class="pre">+</span> <span class="pre">b)</span></code>.</p>262<div class="versionchanged">263<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.4: </span>Parameter <em>msg</em> can be of any type supported by <a class="reference internal" href="hashlib.html#module-hashlib" title="hashlib: Secure hash and message digest algorithms."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">hashlib</span></code></a>.</p>264</div>265</dd></dl>266 267<dl class="py method">268<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="hmac.HMAC.digest">269<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">HMAC.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">digest</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#hmac.HMAC.digest" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>270<dd><p>Return the digest of the bytes passed to the <a class="reference internal" href="#hmac.HMAC.update" title="hmac.HMAC.update"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">update()</span></code></a> method so far.271This bytes object will be the same length as the <em>digest_size</em> of the digest272given to the constructor. It may contain non-ASCII bytes, including NUL273bytes.</p>274<div class="admonition warning">275<p class="admonition-title">Warning</p>276<p>When comparing the output of <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">digest()</span></code> to an externally supplied277digest during a verification routine, it is recommended to use the278<a class="reference internal" href="#hmac.compare_digest" title="hmac.compare_digest"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">compare_digest()</span></code></a> function instead of the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">==</span></code> operator279to reduce the vulnerability to timing attacks.</p>280</div>281</dd></dl>282 283<dl class="py method">284<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="hmac.HMAC.hexdigest">285<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">HMAC.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">hexdigest</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#hmac.HMAC.hexdigest" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>286<dd><p>Like <a class="reference internal" href="#hmac.digest" title="hmac.digest"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">digest()</span></code></a> except the digest is returned as a string twice the287length containing only hexadecimal digits. This may be used to exchange the288value safely in email or other non-binary environments.</p>289<div class="admonition warning">290<p class="admonition-title">Warning</p>291<p>When comparing the output of <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">hexdigest()</span></code> to an externally supplied292digest during a verification routine, it is recommended to use the293<a class="reference internal" href="#hmac.compare_digest" title="hmac.compare_digest"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">compare_digest()</span></code></a> function instead of the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">==</span></code> operator294to reduce the vulnerability to timing attacks.</p>295</div>296</dd></dl>297 298<dl class="py method">299<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="hmac.HMAC.copy">300<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">HMAC.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">copy</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#hmac.HMAC.copy" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>301<dd><p>Return a copy (“clone”) of the hmac object. This can be used to efficiently302compute the digests of strings that share a common initial substring.</p>303</dd></dl>304 305<p>A hash object has the following attributes:</p>306<dl class="py attribute">307<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="hmac.HMAC.digest_size">308<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">HMAC.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">digest_size</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#hmac.HMAC.digest_size" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>309<dd><p>The size of the resulting HMAC digest in bytes.</p>310</dd></dl>311 312<dl class="py attribute">313<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="hmac.HMAC.block_size">314<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">HMAC.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">block_size</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#hmac.HMAC.block_size" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>315<dd><p>The internal block size of the hash algorithm in bytes.</p>316<div class="versionadded">317<p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.4.</span></p>318</div>319</dd></dl>320 321<dl class="py attribute">322<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="hmac.HMAC.name">323<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">HMAC.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">name</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#hmac.HMAC.name" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>324<dd><p>The canonical name of this HMAC, always lowercase, e.g. <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">hmac-md5</span></code>.</p>325<div class="versionadded">326<p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.4.</span></p>327</div>328</dd></dl>329 330<div class="versionchanged">331<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.10: </span>Removed the undocumented attributes <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">HMAC.digest_cons</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">HMAC.inner</span></code>,332and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">HMAC.outer</span></code>.</p>333</div>334<p>This module also provides the following helper function:</p>335<dl class="py function">336<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="hmac.compare_digest">337<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">hmac.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">compare_digest</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">a</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">b</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#hmac.compare_digest" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>338<dd><p>Return <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">a</span> <span class="pre">==</span> <span class="pre">b</span></code>. This function uses an approach designed to prevent339timing analysis by avoiding content-based short circuiting behaviour,340making it appropriate for cryptography. <em>a</em> and <em>b</em> must both be of the341same type: either <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#str" title="str"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str</span></code></a> (ASCII only, as e.g. returned by342<a class="reference internal" href="#hmac.HMAC.hexdigest" title="hmac.HMAC.hexdigest"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">HMAC.hexdigest()</span></code></a>), or a <a class="reference internal" href="../glossary.html#term-bytes-like-object"><span class="xref std std-term">bytes-like object</span></a>.</p>343<div class="admonition note">344<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>345<p>If <em>a</em> and <em>b</em> are of different lengths, or if an error occurs,346a timing attack could theoretically reveal information about the347types and lengths of <em>a</em> and <em>b</em>—but not their values.</p>348</div>349<div class="versionadded">350<p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.3.</span></p>351</div>352<div class="versionchanged">353<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.10: </span>The function uses OpenSSL’s <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">CRYPTO_memcmp()</span></code> internally when354available.</p>355</div>356</dd></dl>357 358<div class="admonition seealso">359<p class="admonition-title">See also</p>360<dl class="simple">361<dt>Module <a class="reference internal" href="hashlib.html#module-hashlib" title="hashlib: Secure hash and message digest algorithms."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">hashlib</span></code></a></dt><dd><p>The Python module providing secure hash functions.</p>362</dd>363</dl>364</div>365</section>366 367 368 <div class="clearer"></div>369 </div>370 </div>371 </div>372 <div class="sphinxsidebar" role="navigation" aria-label="Main">373 <div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper">374 <div>375 <h4>Previous topic</h4>376 <p class="topless"><a href="hashlib.html"377 title="previous chapter"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">hashlib</span></code> — Secure hashes and message digests</a></p>378 </div>379 <div>380 <h4>Next topic</h4>381 <p class="topless"><a href="secrets.html"382 title="next chapter"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">secrets</span></code> — Generate secure random numbers for managing secrets</a></p>383 </div>384 <script>385 document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => {386 const title = document.querySelector('meta[property="og:title"]').content;387 const elements = document.querySelectorAll('.improvepage');388 const pageurl = window.location.href.split('?')[0];389 elements.forEach(element => {390 const url = new URL(element.href.split('?')[0].replace("-nojs", ""));391 url.searchParams.set('pagetitle', title);392 url.searchParams.set('pageurl', pageurl);393 url.searchParams.set('pagesource', "library/hmac.rst");394 element.href = url.toString();395 });396 });397 </script>398 <div role="note" aria-label="source link">399 <h3>This page</h3>400 <ul class="this-page-menu">401 <li><a href="../bugs.html">Report a bug</a></li>402 <li><a class="improvepage" href="../improve-page-nojs.html">Improve this page</a></li>403 <li>404 <a href="https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Doc/library/hmac.rst?plain=1"405 rel="nofollow">Show source406 </a>407 </li>408 409 </ul>410 </div>411 </div>412<div id="sidebarbutton" title="Collapse sidebar">413<span>«</span>414</div>415 416 </div>417 <div class="clearer"></div>418 </div> 419 <div class="related" role="navigation" aria-label="Related">420 <h3>Navigation</h3>421 <ul>422 <li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px">423 <a href="../genindex.html" title="General Index"424 >index</a></li>425 <li class="right" >426 <a href="../py-modindex.html" title="Python Module Index"427 >modules</a> |</li>428 <li class="right" >429 <a href="secrets.html" title="secrets — Generate secure random numbers for managing secrets"430 >next</a> |</li>431 <li class="right" >432 <a href="hashlib.html" title="hashlib — Secure hashes and message digests"433 >previous</a> |</li>434 435 <li><img src="../_static/py.svg" alt="Python logo" style="vertical-align: middle; 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