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        Title           : Secure Session Key Generation. Creating PRF from MAC 
                          Function
        Author(s)       : U. Blumenthal
        Filename        : draft-blumenthal-keygen-03.txt
        Pages           : 18
        Date            : 08-Jul-02
        
This document describes Pseudo Random Function (PRF) based on 
MAC function (keyed iterated hash function), and offers a ref-
erence implementation of PRF based on SHA-1. 
This PRF can be used to produce cryptographic keys for authen-
tication/integrity and encryption. It uses pre-shared secret 
and publicly known random value (and possibly parties� identi-
ties). The main advantage of this algorithm over other similar 
ones is that its security is formally tied to the MAC property 
of the underlying function.

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