Re: Minimum length of secret key

"Roger Moser" <[email protected]> Sat, 24 Jul 2004 17:50:26 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.spam.srs.general
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I wrote:

> SRS uses HMAC-SHA1 where the key is limited to 64 bits. What was the
reason
> to use HMAC-SHA1 instead of  SHA-1 applied to the concatenation of a
secret
> key (without length limit) and the string to hash?

Sorry I read "64 bits" instead of "64 bytes". So please ignore my question.

Roger