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Steve Davis
Jun 5, 2009, 6:13:36 AM6/5/09
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Nothing too intellectual here, but a practical question.
If you have a series of messages of _known bytelength_, would it be
"safe" (in practice) to use only SHA1 to sign a string using secret_key
+message rather than resorting to something like HMAC-SHA1?
TIA
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