Key Derivation API

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Tue Jan 14 09:50:14 CET 2014


On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 23:30, dbaryshkov at gmail.com said:

> I feel a desperate need for the key derivation API not limited to plain
> ECDH.

Can you explain what you want to do with it?  Do you want to create an
ephemeral key from a long term ECC key?  That can easily be done using
the context based ECC API.  Sure that is somewhat low-level but it is
quite flexible and probably the best way until common usage patterns are
established.



Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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