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Re: deriving multiple keys from one passphrase

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas)
Fri Oct 13 09:22:33 2006

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From: Thomas <tom@electric-sheep.org>
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Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:42:56 +0200
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Am Dienstag 10 Oktober 2006 01:35 schrieb Travis H.:
> What is the accepted way to derive several keys from a user-supplied input?

Maybe RFC289.

AFAIK it also describes the reason why it protects against dictionary attacks.

Bye,
Thomas

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