Re: [Cfrg] erratum for hmac what do we think...

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Thu, 02 February 2017 15:21 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: "Paterson, Kenny" <Kenny.Paterson@rhul.ac.uk>, Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>, "cfrg@irtf.org" <Cfrg@irtf.org>
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> I looked quickly myself. It's an undesirable property, but I don't think it's
> disastrous

If this is accurate (paging Hugo... :) then I think the best reply to this is a couple of sentences in the security considerations advising applications that are concerned to limit keys to B bytes instead of hashing.