On Feb 7, 2014, at 2:49 PM, Viktor Dukhovni <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 11:08:20AM -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> 
>> Those existed 15 years ago, and still do. The proposal to make
>> it slightly harder for a harvester (and that's all we're suggesting)
>> adds complexity and no measurable value.
> 
> Yes, adding iterations would definitely add complexity.
> 
> Arguably HMAC(domain, localpart) is more complex than
> SHA(localpart@domain), I don't care which is used.
> 
> Either way of computing the hash of the full address, rather than
> just the local part adds no complexity, and makes off-line attacks
> more difficult (per site dictionaries, rather than global dictionaries).
> This is a free win.  There's simply no reason not to.

I have to say that I agree with Paul here.  I think the epsilon increase in 
security is nice, but not at the cost of the additional operational complexity. 
 However, the hashing-only approach has the nice side effect of fixing the 
label length.  That _does_ seem to solve a problem w/o some of the additional 
complexity.  My vote would be hashing-only approach over Base32 and HMAC.

Eric
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