Re: A Method of Session Key Generation

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Mok-Kong Shen (mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de)
Thu, 28 Jan 1999 17:19:56 +0100

David Jablon wrote:
>

> It's not clear from your proposal whether hashing *all* prior
> shared plaintext is meant to increase the entropy of the
> derived key. If so, I should point out that introducing
> randomness is an essential component of the strong methods.

Since an additional piece of text is involved in the generation
process, it simply ensures that the keys obtained are different.

M. K. Shen

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