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author | lvh <laurens.vanhoutven@rackspace.com> | 2014-12-19 12:01:37 -0800 |
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committer | lvh <laurens.vanhoutven@rackspace.com> | 2014-12-19 12:01:37 -0800 |
commit | 4fe8fe16485ba370d8a4a729b636b4f7616d3845 (patch) | |
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Merge pull request #1561 from alex/link-random
Anywhere we tell someone to randomly generate something, link the RNG docs. Fixes #1559
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diff --git a/docs/hazmat/primitives/twofactor.rst b/docs/hazmat/primitives/twofactor.rst index f19cf0e6..0d86f7cc 100644 --- a/docs/hazmat/primitives/twofactor.rst +++ b/docs/hazmat/primitives/twofactor.rst @@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ codes (HMAC). .. versionadded:: 0.3 HOTP objects take a ``key``, ``length`` and ``algorithm`` parameter. The - ``key`` should be randomly generated bytes and is recommended to be 160 - bits in length. The ``length`` parameter controls the length of the - generated one time password and must be >= 6 and <= 8. + ``key`` should be :doc:`randomly generated bytes </random-numbers>` and is + recommended to be 160 bits in length. The ``length`` parameter controls the + length of the generated one time password and must be >= 6 and <= 8. This is an implementation of :rfc:`4226`. @@ -113,10 +113,10 @@ similar to the following code. .. class:: TOTP(key, length, algorithm, time_step, backend) TOTP objects take a ``key``, ``length``, ``algorithm`` and ``time_step`` - parameter. The ``key`` should be randomly generated bytes and is recommended - to be as long as your hash function's output (e.g 256-bit for SHA256). - The ``length`` parameter controls the length of the generated one time - password and must be >= 6 and <= 8. + parameter. The ``key`` should be :doc:`randomly generated bytes + </random-numbers>` and is recommended to be as long as your hash function's + output (e.g 256-bit for SHA256). The ``length`` parameter controls the + length of the generated one time password and must be >= 6 and <= 8. This is an implementation of :rfc:`6238`. |