Key Derivation

Let's learn about the key derivation in Python and how it can be used.

Python has pretty limited support for key derivation built into the standard library. In fact, the only method that hashlib provides is the pbkdf2_hmac method, which is the PKCS#5 password-based key derivation function. It uses HMAC as its pseudorandom function. We might use something like this for hashing our password as it supports salt and iterations. For example, if we have to use SHA-256, we would need a ...