Juliusz Chroboczek <[email protected]> writes: >> I would like the bird and babel implementations to allow for and use >> BASE64 and hex encodings. > >> This allows for a shorter, more human friendly representation of both >> cryptographically generated keys and the keys humans are more likely >> to remember and type without error. In the latter case, guidelines as >> to length, mixed case and punctuation would be useful. > > I think that the HMAC key should be generated automatically. I'd hope > that any actual production deployment of HMAC would generate HMAC keys > either randomly or by using a suitable KDF (or whatever the right acronym > is) and distribute it automatically.
Should we pick a KDF? Not necessarily for the RFC, but at least try to get compatibility between bird and babeld, so users can just input a password and expect things to work? -Toke _______________________________________________ Babel-users mailing list [email protected] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/babel-users
