[noise] Replace calls to kernel.MixHash with kernel.MixKey

Jason A. Donenfeld Jason at zx2c4.com
Thu Aug 27 05:02:30 PDT 2015


On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 5:31 AM, Trevor Perrin <trevp at trevp.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 6:45 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason at zx2c4.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Simple question: why can't we just replace all calls to kernel.MixHash
> with
> > kernel.MixKey? It seems like this would simplify things quite a bit.
>
> We talked about this earlier:
>
> https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/noise/2015/000198.html


Ahhh, that again, okay.

Specifically: aside from patent concerns, would running a wholesale
s/MixHash/MixKey/g over the Noise spec have any security downsides? Or is
this safe to do?
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