[PATCH] PKCS#5 PBKDF2

Timo Schulz twoaday@freakmail.de
Tue, 3 Dec 2002 10:49:03 +0100


On Tue Dec 03 2002; 10:19, Werner Koch wrote:

> are basic crypto building blocks.  However we should not add just
> pkcs5 but introduce a generic key derive API much like we have it for
> the other building blocks.  Would you like to work on it?  

I really like the idea and I suggest we should also add the RFC2440 S2K modes. 

Then we could use an enumeration of all modes like this:
GCRY_S2K_SIMPLE,
GCRY_S2K_SALTED,
GCRY_S2K_ITERSALTED,
GCRY_S2K_PKCS5,
[..]


Of course it's just an idea...


        Timo