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Re: notes from developer's portion of IETF meeting



Wouldn't it be easiest to have the transforms present a callback
routine for key generation?  The routine would take a variable
precision integer as input (length >= requested entropy) and produce a
list of bitstrings as output.

>   slice and dice
...
>	   All transforms MUST specify a number of keying bits
>		   required and how to generate keys, IVs, etc from that
>		   (# keying bits requested equals the # bits of entropy)

Hilarie


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