On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Trevor Perrin <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 2:46 AM, Nadim Kobeissi <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > The plot thickens:
> > It turns out that HKDF does in fact advocate using the salt as the HMAC
> key.
> > https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5869
>
> Yeah, I've already pointed out this is how HKDF works:
>
> https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2014/001031.html


Yes, this is what makes sense the most. I got misled by the back and forth
between the paper and Moxie's original response.

Thanks, Trevor!


>
>
> Trevor
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