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API Gap: MAC's with nonces

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
rust
Domain
api, cryptography

Research direction

No file or test is named. Start by reading the MAC trait and GMAC's nonce-taking constructor, then determine the intended API for MAC implementations that require nonces. Done should be a decided and documented approach for using GMAC through the MAC trait.

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Description

I had a quick look at GMAC, it seems we can't use the MAC trait with it, due to it needing a constructor parameter. Just noting that here for the next round.

Dominant language
Rust
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Forks
18
Avg merge
14d 10h
Merged PRs (30d)
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