Update Rationale-V3-V4.md: Blake2b is used as "MAC", not "HMAC".

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Specification for Platform Agnostic SEcurity TOkens (PASETO)

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ghost commented 6 months ago

Blake2b is an MAC function on its own, and is not used with HMAC in PASETO.

paragonie-security commented 6 months ago

To be clear, "acts as HMAC" is not saying "is HMAC". It's saying it fulfills the same purpose of HMAC from v3.

ghost commented 6 months ago

Thanks for clarifying, I'll close this for now.