Re: [secdir] Secdir review of draft-sheffer-emu-eap-eke-07

Sean Turner <turners@ieca.com> Wed, 25 August 2010 18:17 UTC

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Subject: Re: [secdir] Secdir review of draft-sheffer-emu-eap-eke-07
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Brian Weis wrote:

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> 2. As far as I can tell, the definition of "kmac" is new to this I-D, 
> which I found a bit confusing. It's really just a MAC, so I think it 
> would be clearer to just call it a mac().

Maybe it should just be hmac instead?

spt