In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:32:03 -0800, Michael
D'Errico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
mike-mlm> I read somewhere that it is a good idea to
mike-mlm> cryptographically hash your key material to
mike-mlm> generate a key, so I wrote a function to do
mike-mlm> that. I'm not exactly sure I'm doing what
mike-mlm> they suggest, so if anyone cares to, can
mike-mlm> you check over my work and see if there are
mike-mlm> any weaknesses? Thanks in advance.
I asumme this is key material generation for symmetric algorithms.
Usually, those are derived from a user-chosen password, so I find it
difficult to understand how your function would be used. I wonder,
BTW, if you've noticed the function EVP_BytesToKey()? Otherwise, you
might want to read PKCS#5, both version 1.5 and version 2.x.
Cheers,
Richard
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