ACTION-887 Best Practice for HMAC

First I need to amend what I said on the call. On the call I was concerned that XML Signature did not unambiguously state what part of the hash value was to be truncated. I now see that the HMAC sections of XML Signature all reference RFC 2104. Section 5 of RFC 2104 says in part: "... by outputting the t leftmost bits of the HMAC computation ..." This seems unambiguous and thus I don't think we need to change XML Signature.

I have attached a proposed new section for the Best Practices doc in approximately the right format rendered in word format.

Hal

Received on Thursday, 21 June 2012 21:42:22 UTC