Re: [Hipsec] What is in a name -- HMAC HIP Parameter

On 26/04/10 17:19, Robert Moskowitz wrote:

Hi,

I would hum for option 2 (with slight preference for "MAC").

> I do not like naming this parameter HMAC and HMAC2:
>
> Eventhough according to draft-irtf-cfrg-kdf-uses-00.txt, we can only use
> HMAC (D-H derived key is NOT uniformly distributed), There may be a
> future hkdf that is NOT HMAC that is secure to use with a D-H derived
> key, or a different key derivation method is used.
>
> This parameter is really the MAC operation of SIGMA compliance, which is
> currently achieved via HMAC.
>
> So I offer two possible alternative parameter names:
>
> HIP_MAC and HIP_MAC2
>
> or
>
> HIP_MIC and HIP_MIC2
>
> The alternative 'MIC' TLA stands for Message Integrity Check. This comes
> out of the IEEE 802 community that already had a MAC and needed a
> different TLA.
>
> Hum 1)
>
> Change HMAC to HIP-MxC
>
> Hum 2)
>
> x :== A or x:== I
>
>
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