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authorAlex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>2014-02-12 14:01:05 -0800
committerAlex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>2014-02-12 14:01:05 -0800
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Be clear about HKDF's applicability for password storage
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@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ Different KDFs are suitable for different tasks such as:
`HKDF`_ (HMAC-based Extract-and-Expand Key Derivation Function) is suitable
for deriving keys of a fixed size used for other cryptographic operations.
+ **HKDF should not be used for password storage.**
.. doctest::