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HMAC and Request Signing

6 questions · ~5 min · intermediate

These questions focus on the parts that make real HMAC request-signing schemes succeed or fail: canonical bytes, replay controls, constant-time verification, and key scope.

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Why do serious request-signing schemes use HMAC-SHA-256 instead of a naive construction like `SHA256(secret || message)`?

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