[erlang-questions] How to use crypto:hmac_init() and friends?

Jesper Louis Andersen jesper.louis.andersen@REDACTED
Fri Nov 20 12:43:25 CET 2015


On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Viktor Söderqvist <viktor@REDACTED>
wrote:

> I think the magic could at least be documented. The documentation for
> http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/crypto.html#hmac_init-2 just says the
> context is a binary and doesn't mention anything about the emulator
> state. That would be nice. I certainly would be confused if I ran into
> this empty binary.
>

It feels like a hack to me. Having an explicit opaque type for these kinds
of things would be really nice.


-- 
J.
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