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HMAC is useful because it fixes some flaws with the Merkle-Damgard construction that SHA2 uses. SHA3 and Blake2* use different constructions that don't have th
by tuxxy 8y ago
HMAC is useful because it fixes some flaws with the Merkle-Damgard construction that SHA2 uses.
SHA3 and Blake2* use different constructions that don't have these flaws, thus they don't require HMACs for their needs.
- garmaine 8y agoOk, your original comment wasn’t clear on intent.