hmac-md5-init

Arguments: key &key external-format

hmac-md5-init prepares and returns a context for use in subsequent calls to hmac-md5-update and hmac-md5-final. The context is initialized according to the key argument. key can be a string or (unsigned-byte 8) array (i.e (unsigned-byte 8) array). If key is a string, it is internally converted to an (unsigned-byte 8) array according to the external-format keyword argument (or the default external format, if the keyword argument is not supplied).

See MD5, SHA1, HMAC, and RC4 support in miscellaneous.htm.

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Created 2009.7.29.