- From: Magnus Nystrom <mnystrom@microsoft.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:56:41 +0000
- To: "XMLSec WG Public List (public-xmlsec@w3.org)" <public-xmlsec@w3.org>
Pratik wrote: > Can we remove the KeyLength parameter in PBKDF2 ? > In the other two key derivation functions - ConcatKDF and LegacyKeyDerivation, the length of the key to be derived is not specified , > rather it needs to be inferred from the context. We should have PBKDF2 also behave similarly. I don't see how one could do this as the KeyLength is an integral part of the PBKDF2 algorithm. For example, it is used to determine how many blocks of hash output that is required. I'd recommend not trying to change this at this point. -- Magnus
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