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

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Thu, 02 February 2017 02:24 UTC

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Subject: [Cfrg] erratum for hmac what do we think...
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Hiya,

There's an erratum posted for hmac [1] where I'd be
interested in what folks here think.

I'm unsure if this is a real problem, esp given that
there are I guess a lot of implementations.

And even if it were a real problem, I'm not sure we'd
want that fix.

Opinions welcome...

Thanks,
S.

[1]
https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=2104&eid=4809&rec_status=15&area_acronym=&errata_type=&wg_acronym=&submitter_name=&stream_name=&submit_date=&presentation=records

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