Renaming of HKDF-CTR to HKDF

I have done the pull request that I promised on today's conference call. It
can be found at:
https://github.com/w3c/webcrypto/pull/16

I believe that this correspond to what Rob said that Mozilla has
implemented.  Please review and comment on the field names.

Additional issues that can be addressed here:

1.  HKDF allows for salt to be optional, there is a bug reported by Harry
(https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=27473)  which says that this
may be a problem.  I do not know if this was reported for the NIST version
or for the IETF version of the algorithm.  It may be that it is just fixed
by switching algorithms.  If not then we can modify the text to provide
default salt behavior in the algorithm description.

2.  I did not address the question of having an export function for KDF
functions (27774) as it should be done for all of the KDF functions at the
same time.  However I would support doing this.

Jim

Received on Monday, 7 March 2016 23:35:50 UTC