Re: [babel] babel-hmac: key requirements

"STARK, BARBARA H" <bs7652@att.com> Wed, 16 January 2019 17:06 UTC

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From: "STARK, BARBARA H" <bs7652@att.com>
To: 'Juliusz Chroboczek' <jch@irif.fr>
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> > Insert a section under Data Structures of:
> 
> > ## The HMAC Key
> 
> > The HMAC key is a string of bytes the length of which is exactly the
> > block size of the HMAC algorithm being used. Note this is different
> > from the [RFC2104] definition.
> 
> Good idea.  I'll do that.

Thx. That will resolve my comment. With this, I'm fine with publication of the draft.

I'll start a separate thread to handle my question about the information-model datatype.
Barbara