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NAME
Digest::HMAC - Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication
SYNOPSIS
# Functional style use Digest::HMAC qw(hmac hmac_hex); $digest = hmac($data, $key, \&myhash); print hmac_hex($data, $key, \&myhash); # OO style use Digest::HMAC; $hmac = Digest::HMAC->new($key, "Digest::MyHash"); $hmac->add($data); $hmac->addfile(*FILE); $digest = $hmac->digest; $digest = $hmac->hexdigest; $digest = $hmac->b64digest;
DESCRIPTION
HMAC is used for message integrity checks between two parties that share a secret key, and works in combination with some other Digest algorithm, usually MD5 or SHA-1. The HMAC mechanism is described in RFC 2104.
HMAC follow the common
Digest::
interface, but the constructor takes the secret key and the name of some other simpleDigest::
as argument.The hmac() and hmac_hex() functions and the Digest::HMAC->new() constructor takes an optional $blocksize argument as well. The HMAC algorithm assumes the digester to hash by iterating a basic compression function on blocks of data and the $blocksize should match the byte-length of such blocks.
The default $blocksize is 64 which is suitable for the MD5 and SHA-1 digest functions. For stronger algorithms the blocksize probably needs to be increased.
SEE ALSO
Digest::HMAC_MD5, Digest::HMAC_SHA1
RFC 2104
AUTHORS
Graham Barr <gbarr@ti.com>, Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Module Install Instructions
To install Digest::HMAC, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm Digest::HMAC
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Digest::HMAC
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.