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Subject: [3.13] gh-72570: mention the incompatibility of XOFs with HMAC (GH-136676) (#136679)
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[3.13] gh-72570: mention the incompatibility of XOFs with HMAC (GH-136676) (#136679)

gh-72570: mention the incompatibility of XOFs with HMAC (GH-136676)
(cherry picked from commit a02cf19deed353d1e0e7564468f10aced61c12e8)

Co-authored-by: Bénédikt Tran <10796600+picnixz@users.noreply.github.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/hmac.rst b/Doc/library/hmac.rst
index d6692033b2d4..57076c38086c 100644
--- a/Doc/library/hmac.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/hmac.rst
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
 --------------
 
 This module implements the HMAC algorithm as described by :rfc:`2104`.
+The interface allows to use any hash function with a *fixed* digest size.
+In particular, extendable output functions such as SHAKE-128 or SHAKE-256
+cannot be used with HMAC.
 
 
 .. function:: new(key, msg=None, digestmod)