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HMAC is a method for constructing a message authentication code based on a cryptographic hash function.

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What do the magic numbers 0x5c and 0x36 in the opad/ipad calc in HMAC do?

Wikipedia lists the following pseudocode for HMAC: function hmac (key, message) if (length(key) > blocksize) then key = hash(key) // keys longer than blocksize are shortened end if …
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