Re: [babel] [Babel-users] BASE64 and hex encoding HMAC keys for user presentation
Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk> Mon, 24 December 2018 22:09 UTC
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Subject: Re: [babel] [Babel-users] BASE64 and hex encoding HMAC keys for user presentation
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Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr> writes: >>> I think that the HMAC key should be generated automatically. I'd hope >>> that any actual production deployment of HMAC would generate HMAC keys >>> either randomly or by using a suitable KDF (or whatever the right acronym >>> is) and distribute it automatically. > >> Should we pick a KDF? Not necessarily for the RFC, but at least try to >> get compatibility between bird and babeld, so users can just input a >> password and expect things to work? > > I think we might need more deployment experience before we can answer that. > > At this early stage, however, I wouldn't expect the master key to be > distributed -- the KDF would be applied to the master key on a central > node, and the derived secret is what gets distributed to the babeld and > BIRD instances. So having a common syntax for the HMAC secret should be > good enough. Fair enough :) -Toke
- [babel] BASE64 and hex encoding HMAC keys for use… Dave Taht
- Re: [babel] BASE64 and hex encoding HMAC keys for… Dave Taht
- Re: [babel] [Babel-users] BASE64 and hex encoding… Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
- Re: [babel] BASE64 and hex encoding HMAC keys for… Juliusz Chroboczek
- Re: [babel] [Babel-users] BASE64 and hex encoding… Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
- Re: [babel] [Babel-users] BASE64 and hex encoding… Juliusz Chroboczek
- Re: [babel] [Babel-users] BASE64 and hex encoding… Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
- Re: [babel] [Babel-users] BASE64 and hex encoding… Donald Eastlake