diff --git a/django/utils/crypto.py b/django/utils/crypto.py
index 4ec1cfcf77..edeb336f34 100644
--- a/django/utils/crypto.py
+++ b/django/utils/crypto.py
@@ -9,10 +9,16 @@ from django.conf import settings
 from django.utils.encoding import force_bytes
 
 
-def salted_hmac(key_salt, value, secret=None):
+class InvalidAlgorithm(ValueError):
+    """Algorithm is not supported by hashlib."""
+    pass
+
+
+def salted_hmac(key_salt, value, secret=None, *, algorithm='sha1'):
     """
-    Return the HMAC-SHA1 of 'value', using a key generated from key_salt and a
-    secret (which defaults to settings.SECRET_KEY).
+    Return the HMAC of 'value', using a key generated from key_salt and a
+    secret (which defaults to settings.SECRET_KEY). Default algorithm is SHA1,
+    but any algorithm name supported by hashlib.new() can be passed.
 
     A different key_salt should be passed in for every application of HMAC.
     """
@@ -21,16 +27,21 @@ def salted_hmac(key_salt, value, secret=None):
 
     key_salt = force_bytes(key_salt)
     secret = force_bytes(secret)
-
+    try:
+        hasher = getattr(hashlib, algorithm)
+    except AttributeError as e:
+        raise InvalidAlgorithm(
+            '%r is not an algorithm accepted by the hashlib module.'
+            % algorithm
+        ) from e
     # We need to generate a derived key from our base key.  We can do this by
-    # passing the key_salt and our base key through a pseudo-random function and
-    # SHA1 works nicely.
-    key = hashlib.sha1(key_salt + secret).digest()
+    # passing the key_salt and our base key through a pseudo-random function.
+    key = hasher(key_salt + secret).digest()
     # If len(key_salt + secret) > block size of the hash algorithm, the above
     # line is redundant and could be replaced by key = key_salt + secret, since
     # the hmac module does the same thing for keys longer than the block size.
     # However, we need to ensure that we *always* do this.
-    return hmac.new(key, msg=force_bytes(value), digestmod=hashlib.sha1)
+    return hmac.new(key, msg=force_bytes(value), digestmod=hasher)
 
 
 def get_random_string(length=12,
diff --git a/tests/utils_tests/test_crypto.py b/tests/utils_tests/test_crypto.py
index 1c3868f4ca..9dbfd9fe57 100644
--- a/tests/utils_tests/test_crypto.py
+++ b/tests/utils_tests/test_crypto.py
@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
 import hashlib
 import unittest
 
-from django.utils.crypto import constant_time_compare, pbkdf2, salted_hmac
+from django.test import SimpleTestCase
+from django.utils.crypto import (
+    InvalidAlgorithm, constant_time_compare, pbkdf2, salted_hmac,
+)
 
 
-class TestUtilsCryptoMisc(unittest.TestCase):
+class TestUtilsCryptoMisc(SimpleTestCase):
 
     def test_constant_time_compare(self):
         # It's hard to test for constant time, just test the result.
@@ -27,11 +30,31 @@ class TestUtilsCryptoMisc(unittest.TestCase):
                 {'secret': 'x' * hashlib.sha1().block_size},
                 'bd3749347b412b1b0a9ea65220e55767ac8e96b0',
             ),
+            (
+                ('salt', 'value'),
+                {'algorithm': 'sha256'},
+                'ee0bf789e4e009371a5372c90f73fcf17695a8439c9108b0480f14e347b3f9ec',
+            ),
+            (
+                ('salt', 'value'),
+                {
+                    'algorithm': 'blake2b',
+                    'secret': 'x' * hashlib.blake2b().block_size,
+                },
+                'fc6b9800a584d40732a07fa33fb69c35211269441823bca431a143853c32f'
+                'e836cf19ab881689528ede647dac412170cd5d3407b44c6d0f44630690c54'
+                'ad3d58',
+            ),
         ]
         for args, kwargs, digest in tests:
             with self.subTest(args=args, kwargs=kwargs):
                 self.assertEqual(salted_hmac(*args, **kwargs).hexdigest(), digest)
 
+    def test_invalid_algorithm(self):
+        msg = "'whatever' is not an algorithm accepted by the hashlib module."
+        with self.assertRaisesMessage(InvalidAlgorithm, msg):
+            salted_hmac('salt', 'value', algorithm='whatever')
+
 
 class TestUtilsCryptoPBKDF2(unittest.TestCase):