Re: [freenet-devl] Notes on 0.4 design

[Adam Langley]

On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 12:24:34AM -0400, Tavin Cole wrote:
> Well, this is how I'm doing it now:
> 
> CHK encryption key = make_key(hash(data))
> 
> i.e., NO padding.

Why?? This just makes the wrose design a world of pain.

> What doesn't make sense to me is using data+padding to generate
> the encryption key.  It would make the code unnecessarily complicated,
> without serving any purpose.

No, because make_key(hash(data+padding)) means that the padding fits nicely intpo a 
different layer.

AGL


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