Add section on Blake2 MAC with variable output + convenience method #602
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This reintroduces the MAC section that used to be present in the version
"0.9"
but has since been removed. This demonstrates the new API changes and required trait imports. Additionally, theblake2_mac_impl!
macro was expanded with the following convenience method, which is very straight-forward:You can cut that method out, of course. Maybe it's redundant somehow?
Full example:
Which is equivalent to the (outdated)
"0.9"
way of doing this:It's probably worth commenting on whether it's possible to somehow combine
Blake2bMac
withBlake2bVar
, respectively MAC output size set at run time. That's not entirely clear to me, either.