On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 6:32 PM, Martin Thomson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> After a bunch of discussion about the consequences of having
> insufficient output from various stages of the hash functions... Could
> we make an amendment to TLS 1.3 to force the output size of the
> exporter to be the size of the underlying hash output?  That is,
> remove the length parameter.  Or is a change to the API too
> disruptive?
>

I don't think this is a good idea. There are plenty of reasons why you
would want to
export values != hash_len (e.g., cryptographic keys). Putting a restriction
here just
pushes the problem around

-Ekr


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