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| author | lvh <laurens.vanhoutven@rackspace.com> | 2014-12-19 12:01:37 -0800 |
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| committer | lvh <laurens.vanhoutven@rackspace.com> | 2014-12-19 12:01:37 -0800 |
| commit | 4fe8fe16485ba370d8a4a729b636b4f7616d3845 (patch) | |
| tree | 8f112e742be57ff7c1bd38373a33c7f372eacc88 /docs/hazmat/primitives/mac | |
| parent | 1d50e421d6fd1a42a92301b950f4a7a25546e863 (diff) | |
| parent | 9b6fd8e8b6876cbc88d8cfbe452bb38af256f22d (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #1561 from alex/link-random
Anywhere we tell someone to randomly generate something, link the RNG docs. Fixes #1559
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diff --git a/docs/hazmat/primitives/mac/hmac.rst b/docs/hazmat/primitives/mac/hmac.rst index 9ce49c8d..ce566c5c 100644 --- a/docs/hazmat/primitives/mac/hmac.rst +++ b/docs/hazmat/primitives/mac/hmac.rst @@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ of a message. HMAC objects take a ``key`` and a :class:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.interfaces.HashAlgorithm` provider. - The ``key`` should be randomly generated bytes and is recommended to be - equal in length to the ``digest_size`` of the hash function chosen. - You must keep the ``key`` secret. + The ``key`` should be :doc:`randomly generated bytes </random-numbers>` and + is recommended to be equal in length to the ``digest_size`` of the hash + function chosen. You must keep the ``key`` secret. This is an implementation of :rfc:`2104`. |