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Expand Up @@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ include a `salt <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_%28cryptography%29>`_.
your application, read *Appendix A.2.2* of NIST-SP-800-132_. The answers
on the `stackexchange pbkdf2 iterations question`_ explain in detail.

*dklen* is the length of the derived key. If *dklen* is ``None`` then the
*dklen* is the length of the derived key in bytes. If *dklen* is ``None`` then the
digest size of the hash algorithm *hash_name* is used, e.g. 64 for SHA-512.

>>> from hashlib import pbkdf2_hmac
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