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Re: [ydn-auth] pseudo hmac md5?

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 words, we're reusing some existing stuff that's been tested in the field and proven to work well for our needs.

Jeremy

hgranqvist wrote:
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
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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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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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