salty axolotl

[Travis Biehn]

Page 6 of the illustrated primer is better than any ASCII RFC chart I've
ever seen.

http://www.slideshare.net/ChristineCorbettMora/axolotl-protocol-an-illustrated-primer



On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 1:14 PM, stef <s at ctrlc.hu> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 06:53:06PM +0200, stef wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 06:43:56PM +0200, CodesInChaos wrote:
> > > Why would you use scrypt for anything except strengthening low entropy
> > > secrets (like passwords)?
>
> reason: i'm stupid, wasn't thinking, and had so far no such valuable
> feedback
> as ours.
>
> > > For high entropy secrets there are much simpler and cleaner
> > > alternatives, such as HKDF.
> >
> > excellent observation. with nacl would generic_hash(master_key,
> some_const, key_size)
> > be sufficient as a kdf?
>
> thank you for this useful feedback! i removed scrypt and replaced it with
> above suggestion. updated on git.
>
> --
> otr fp: https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/otr.txt
>



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