hmac

Documentation

Overview

Package hmac implements the Keyed-Hash Message Authentication Code (HMAC) as defined in U.S. Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 198. An HMAC is a cryptographic hash that uses a key to sign a message. The receiver verifies the hash by recomputing it using the same key.

Receivers should be careful to use Equal to compare MACs in order to avoid timing side-channels:

// CheckMAC reports whether messageMAC is a valid HMAC tag for message.
func CheckMAC(message, messageMAC, key []byte) bool {
	mac := hmac.New(sha256.New, key)
	mac.Write(message)
	expectedMAC := mac.Sum(nil)
	return hmac.Equal(messageMAC, expectedMAC)
}

Index

• func AcquireSHA1(key []byte) hash.Hash
• func Equal(mac1, mac2 []byte) bool
• func New(h func() hash.Hash, key []byte) hash.Hash
• func PutSHA1(h hash.Hash)

Functions

func AcquireSHA1

func AcquireSHA1(key []byte) hash.Hash

AcquireSHA1 returns new HMAC from pool.

func Equal

func Equal(mac1, mac2 []byte) bool

Equal compares two MACs for equality without leaking timing information.

func New

func New(h func() hash.Hash, key []byte) hash.Hash

New returns a new HMAC hash using the given hash.Hash type and key. Note that unlike other hash implementations in the standard library, the returned Hash does not implement encoding.BinaryMarshaler or encoding.BinaryUnmarshaler.

func PutSHA1

func PutSHA1(h hash.Hash)

PutSHA1 puts h to pool.