From: R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 18:07:21 +0000 (-0500) Subject: whatsnew: expand pbkdf2_hmac entry slightly. X-Git-Tag: v3.4.1rc1~233^2~181 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9251d59523f64fa789c5ec4e68290644fbde1021;p=python whatsnew: expand pbkdf2_hmac entry slightly. --- diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst index f9e5b2a593..997afc49d3 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst @@ -757,8 +757,10 @@ dictionaries containing the collections statistics since interpreter startup. hashlib ------- -New :func:`hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac` function. (Contributed by Christian Heimes in -:issue:`18582`) +A new :func:`hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac` function provides +the `PKCS#5 password-based key derivation function 2 +<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2>`_. (Contributed by Christian +Heimes in :issue:`18582`) The :attr:`~hashlib.hash.name` attribute of :mod:`hashlib` hash objects is now a formally supported interface. It has always existed in CPython's