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Can anybody share some background to why BBAuth uses:

* "pseudo hmac" for authentication instead of proper hmac (incl. padding and key
length
constraints)
* md5 instead of sha1










Thu Oct 5, 2006 7:29 am

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Can anybody share some background to why BBAuth uses: * "pseudo hmac" for authentication instead of proper hmac (incl. padding and key length constraints) *...
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Oct 5, 2006
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While I can't comment on the choice of algorithm, I can say that some of the technology used in BBAuth was not developed solely for use with BBAuth. In other...
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