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remove `hmac_compat`

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2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
cryptography

Research direction

Search the repository for the hmac_compat function and all of its references, then inspect the surrounding compatibility code. Done means the unused compatibility function and its references are removed while the existing test suite still passes.

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Description

maintenance

Since both 2.6 and 3.6 accept the same data types into hmac, the compat function hmac_compat is no longer needed, we should remove it.

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