open-quantum-safe / oqs-provider

OpenSSL 3 provider containing post-quantum algorithms
https://openquantumsafe.org
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Hybrid KEM: more combiners, more abstraction #17

Open bhess opened 3 years ago

bhess commented 3 years ago

Follow-up after #16:

mouse07410 commented 1 year ago

IMHO, from practical point of view, a construct like

K = KDF (SS1 || SS2 || ... || SSn)

is hard to beat, both security-wise and simplicity-wise. I don't think we need anything more elaborated, though a few details should be written down, like fixed length of each shared secret.