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Re: [openpgp] 4880bis: Update S2K

2015-04-24 15:08:53

On Apr 23, 2015, at 2:40 AM, Nils Durner <ndurner(_at_)googlemail(_dot_)com> 
wrote:

Wrong. It's not the iteration count - it's the octet count of how many octets 
will be hashed.

it is isomorphic to iteration count. It's just screwy and too clever by half. 
Okay, I take that back. You know how there's a fine line between clever and 
stupid? It's so clever that it wraps the cleverness counter and ends up on the 
stupid side.

I would love to see PBKDF2 in there on the list of things acceptable. Please do 
not assume my comment above means that I have *anything* nice to say about the 
present iterator. It is, however, as secure as PBKDF2. It's just too clever by 
half.

        Jon

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