On 17 December 2012 23:06, Dave Thompson <[email protected]> wrote:

> >     aout = ECDH_compute_key(abuf, alen, EC_KEY_get0_public_key(ecdh2),
> > ecdh, KDF1_SHA1);
>
> What is KDF1_SHA1? If it's copied from ec/ecdhtest.c or apps/speed.c,
> that's designed to use SHA1; if you want something else, change it.
> I'm not sure why it's even there; the comment in speed.c says it was
> in a tls-ecc draft, but it is NOT in 4492. I don't know of any other
> ECDH (or DH) applications that apply a nontrivial KDF directly to
> the agreement; if they do key derivation, it's somewhere else.
>

Well it is kind of in 4492:
"All ECDH calculations (including parameter and key generation as well as
the shared secret calculation) are performed according to [6] using the
ECKAS-DH1 scheme with the identity map as key derivation function (KDF)..."

...followed by...

"(Note that this use of the identity KDF is a technicality.  The complete
picture is that ECDH is employed with a non-trivial KDF because TLS does
not directly use the premaster secret for anything other than for computing
the master secret.  As of TLS 1.0 [2] and 1.1 [3], this means that the MD5-
and SHA-1-based TLS PRF serves as a KDF;..."

Matt

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