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Comment by coolThingsFirst

3 months ago

What is HMAC i still dont understand this part? Is it RSA encrytion?

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dogacel  3 months ago

No, RSA is asymetric, where it has a public/private key pair.

HMAC is symetric, it only has a secret and it can be used to hash values one-way.

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