Re: [TLS] draft-urien-tls-keygen-00.txt

[Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org>]

It is a good idea to use different labels for different key usage.
Further, I would consider interactions between your document and the
following WG document:

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-extractor-01.txt

You could refer to this for key label discussions.

/Simon

Pascal Urien <Pascal.Urien at enst.fr> writes:

> Hi Mike,
>
>   I agree on that point.
>
>    Maybe the label used with KDF could be different according
>   to different uses
>
> Pascal
>
> At 20:24 22/06/2008, Mike wrote:
>>It might be better to use a label other than "key expansion" in the KDF
>>since that is already used in TLS.
>>
>>Mike
>>
>>
>>Pascal Urien wrote:
>>>Dear all,
>>>The draft http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-urien-tls-keygen-00.txt
>>>  proposes a  keying infrastructure based on the TLS protocol.
>>>  It suggests defining an additional Key Distribution Function (KDF)
>>>  in order to deliver a set of cryptographic keys.
>>>   In a peer to peer mode keys are directly produced as inputs of
>>> the KDF functions.
>>>   For centralized architectures they are delivered through containers,
>>>   secured with keys derived from the KDF function.
>>>   I will attend to the next IETF meeting in Dublin, and i hope to present
>>>   more precisely the scope of this proposal
>>>Best Regards
>>>Pascal
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