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From: Steve Burnett <burnettS@RSA.COM>
To: "'JavaSoft crypto questions'" <java-security@web2.javasoft.com>
Subject: HMAC in the Security layer
Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 11:31:31 -0700
HMAC is generally considered a kind of message digest. Suppose I want
to implement it in the JDK 1.1 layer. Should it be part of the
MessageDigest class? If so, I'll need a way to initialize the object
with a secret key. If not, where would it belong? The DESMAC is another
example, but I doubt that algorithm is implemented as much as HMAC is
(HMAC is part of the SET standard).
--Steve Burnett
burnetts@rsa.com