Stephan Mueller <smuel...@chronox.de> wrote:

> With the new DH support for the key retention service, support for DH derived 
> keys pops up.
> 
> The implementation in security/keys/dh.c returns the DH shared secret 
> straight 
> to the user space caller.
> 
> I implemented a KDF with that exact scenario already in mind: [1].
> 
> I am wondering whether the shared secret should be processed by a KDF before 
> returning the data to user space?
> 
> [1] http://www.chronox.de/kdf.html

Adding Mat to the cc list.  If we want to modify the new DH keyctl, we have a
very short time window in which to do so.

David
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