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Author christian.heimes
Recipients christian.heimes, minrk, takluyver
Date 2016-10-11.09:32:00
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It's not a bug, but indented behavior. It does not make any sense to use SHAKE with the HMAC construct. In fact it does not make sense to combine Keccak sponge or Blake2 with HMAC at all. HMAC is only necessary for old, Merkle-Damgard hashing algorithms like MD5, SHA1 and SHA2, because they are subject to length extension attacks.

The correct solution is
4. improve documentation
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