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KEM selection #90

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sander opened this issue Jan 7, 2025 · 0 comments
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KEM selection #90

sander opened this issue Jan 7, 2025 · 0 comments

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sander commented Jan 7, 2025

The current spec cherry-picks a KEM from HPKE, which may lead to domain separation problems. Also the key derivation may be simplified by using hash_to_curve like for BL.

Some other standards apply HPKE by applying Context.Export directly after SetupBase, accepting the overhead of hashing an extra time.

NIST has just published SP800-227: Recommendations for Key-Encapsulation Mechanisms.

Possibly we need to reconsider and/or add a rationale to the spec.

@sander sander moved this to To do in HDK coordination Jan 7, 2025
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