[openssl-project] FW: [openssl/openssl] VMS: lower the entropy demand for this platform specifically (#5904)

Kurt Roeckx kurt at roeckx.be
Sun Apr 8 21:33:25 UTC 2018


On Sun, Apr 08, 2018 at 08:29:18PM +0000, Dr. Matthias St. Pierre wrote:
> Just for completeness sake: The entropy requirement is 256 and *not* 384 if a derivation function is used.

But one way of implementing the nonce when a DF is not used, is to
also have 384 bit in that case, which is our current
implementation. If someone writes a default get_nonce function it
can be reduced to 256.


Kurt



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