hmac format?

[Damien Miller]

On Sat, 20 May 2000, Mike Benham wrote:

>  I was looking at the the way that ssh calculates an hmac,
> and I noticed that the ordering is a little strange - it does
> hash(key+message).  Shouldn't this rather be hash(message+key)?

Which bit of code are you referring to? 

-d

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