On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 01:29:28PM +0000, Blumenthal, Uri - 0553 - MITLL wrote:
> Speaking of PRF hash, I want to bring up the fact that‎ SHA-3 is a
> better PRF by design, as that was one of the explicitly stated
> competition requirements (unlike MD*, SHA-1, and SHA-2).

Well, the name "prf-hash" comes from SSLv3-TLS 1.2 days, before it
was noticed that you need collision resistance too, which is much
stronger requirement than being a good prf (in constructions like
HMAC or HKDF).


-Ilari

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