Re: [kitten] WGLC on draft-ietf-kitten-aes-cts-hmac-sha2-06

Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU> Tue, 21 April 2015 00:33 UTC

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Subject: Re: [kitten] WGLC on draft-ietf-kitten-aes-cts-hmac-sha2-06
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On Mon, 20 Apr 2015, Greg Hudson wrote:

> On 04/20/2015 11:56 AM, Michael Peck wrote:
> > Our draft's current practice of truncating the pseudo-random function
> > output to 128 bits (for enctype aes128-cts-hmac-sha256-128) and 256 bits
> > (for enctype aes256-cts-hmac-sha384-192) rather than providing the full
> > HMAC output has the benefit of discouraging misuse of the output.  If
>
> To the best of my knowledge, all current users of the RFC 3961 PRF have
> a fixed amount of desired output, and iterate and truncate the PRF
> function to produce the number of desired bytes.  See the definitions of
> PRF+ in RFC 4402 and RFC 6112.

I'm trimming most of the mail, but I agree with everything Greg said.  The
RFC 3961 pseudo-random function is basically only useful as a building
block for a PRF+ construction, given that different enctypes are permitted
to (and do!) output different length pseudo-random output.

-Ben