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Re: [babel] Babel-MAC: Blake2s is 128-bits by default

Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com> Sat, 07 November 2020 01:53 UTC

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From: Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2020 20:52:52 -0500
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Subject: Re: [babel] Babel-MAC: Blake2s is 128-bits by default
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I guess AUTH48 is probably the right time to do this.

Speaking as a WG member, although my opinion is not very strong, I would
suggest
 - SHOULD implement BLAKE2s with 32-octet hashes

Thanks,
Donald
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On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 7:14 PM David Schinazi <dschinazi.ietf@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Random thought: the draft mentions that the MAC algorithm
> is configured alongside the key for it. Perhaps we should
> add an explicit sentence such as "For MAC algorithms that
> support multiple digest sizes (such as BLAKE2s), the digest
> size needs to be communicated alongside the MAC algorithm.".
>
> I agree that the "SHOULD implement BLAKE2s" should
> mention a key length, but I have no preference between:
> - SHOULD implement BLAKE2s with 16-octet hashes
> - SHOULD implement BLAKE2s with 32-octet hashes
> - SHOULD implement BLAKE2s with both 16 and 32-octet hashes
>
> David
>
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 3:09 PM Antonin Décimo <antonin.decimo@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> > > As Valery Smyslov noted, BLAKE2s is able to produce hashes of any size
>> > > between 1 and 32 octets (8 and 256 bits).  However, both
>> implementations
>> > > of Babel-MAC only ever produce 16-octet BLAKE2s hashes.
>> >
>> > Okay, something seemed off about this when I read it just now, so I just
>> > double checked: And in fact both implementations use 32-byte Blake2s
>> > digest sizes...
>>
>> That also seemed off to me. To be fair regarding babeld, the "old"
>> hmac branch used 16-bytes blake2s, and my rewrite uses 32-bytes. We’re
>> using the reference blake2s implementation, and I changed 16 to the
>> provided BLAKE2S_OUTBYTES = 32 constant.
>>
>> > I still support making the change and specifying the size, but to
>> > correspond to current implementation practice the change would need to
>> > be "with 256-bit (32 octet) hashes".
>>
>> Me too. I an exchange earlier this year, Donald and Juliusz explained
>> to me that the size of the output hash is considered part of the
>> hashing algorithm, so yes, I support making that explicit for blake2s.
>>
>>
>> -- Antonin
>>
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