Re: [Cryptography-dev] "intrinsic" symmetric key identifier?

2016-07-06 Thread lvh
Hi, > On Jul 2, 2016, at 6:52 PM, Frank Siebenlist > wrote: > The aim is to find the most convenient symmetric key identifier to embed in a > cipher message that would require the minimum amount of key management. > > What is best depends on the context. Sometimes it's easy because there is

Re: [Cryptography-dev] "intrinsic" symmetric key identifier?

2016-07-06 Thread Frank Siebenlist
Thanks for the detailed scrutiny! Comments/answers in-line: > ... >> The aim is to find the most convenient symmetric key identifier to embed in >> a cipher message that would require the minimum amount of key management. >> >> What is best depends on the context. Sometimes it's easy because the

Re: [Cryptography-dev] "intrinsic" symmetric key identifier?

2016-07-06 Thread Laurens Van Houtven
Hi, Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 6, 2016, at 13:22, Frank Siebenlist wrote: >> For some more context on “it depends what you want to accomplish, and >> generic schemes are hard”; Bob and Alice may also want to have key ids that >> only work for _them_ — e.g. Bob and Alice’s static DH keys are