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0 pointstuxxy7y ago0 comments

HMAC is useful because it fixes some flaws with the Merkle-Damgard construction that SHA2 uses.

SHA3 and Blake2* use different constructions that don't have these flaws, thus they don't require HMACs for their needs.

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Ok, your original comment wasn’t clear on intent.

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0 pointstuxxy7y ago0 comments

HMAC is useful because it fixes some flaws with the Merkle-Damgard construction that SHA2 uses.

SHA3 and Blake2* use different constructions that don't have these flaws, thus they don't require HMACs for their needs.

Ok, your original comment wasn’t clear on intent.

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