On Thu, Sep 19, 2019, at 6:41 AM, Christopher Wood wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2019, at 4:31 PM, Martin Thomson wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 19, 2019, at 01:41, Christopher Wood wrote:
> > > Ah, so, I think this is where the miscommunication is happening! The 
> > > target KDFs I've been envisioning are not protocol specific. 
> > 
> > As HKDF and the TLS 1.2 PRF are not the same function, wouldn't it be 
> > better to have separate identifiers?  Sure, we could rely on the 
> > `protocol` field to diversify the output, but I think that we should be 
> > applying the same principle throughout, namely that the one key is only 
> > used with the one KDF instantiation.
> 
> Agreed on the principle, especially if future versions of TLS define 
> new KDFs and we want to avoid using the same imported key across both.
> 
> I'll make that change after #18 
> (https://github.com/tlswg/draft-ietf-tls-external-psk-importer/pull/18) 
> lands, at which point we should be able to close issues #15 and #16. 

OK, #18, modified to take this discussion into account, has been merged. Thanks 
to everyone who commented here and on GitHub!

Best,
Chris

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