// Copyright 2014 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

// Package hkdf implements the HMAC-based Extract-and-Expand Key Derivation // Function (HKDF) as defined in RFC 5869. // // HKDF is a cryptographic key derivation function (KDF) with the goal of // expanding limited input keying material into one or more cryptographically // strong secret keys.
package hkdf // import "golang.org/x/crypto/hkdf" import ( ) // Extract generates a pseudorandom key for use with Expand from an input secret // and an optional independent salt. // // Only use this function if you need to reuse the extracted key with multiple // Expand invocations and different context values. Most common scenarios, // including the generation of multiple keys, should use New instead. func ( func() hash.Hash, , []byte) []byte { if == nil { = make([]byte, ().Size()) } := hmac.New(, ) .Write() return .Sum(nil) } type hkdf struct { expander hash.Hash size int info []byte counter byte prev []byte buf []byte } func ( *hkdf) ( []byte) (int, error) { // Check whether enough data can be generated := len() := len(.buf) + int(255-.counter+1)*.size if < { return 0, errors.New("hkdf: entropy limit reached") } // Read any leftover from the buffer := copy(, .buf) = [:] // Fill the rest of the buffer for len() > 0 { if .counter > 1 { .expander.Reset() } .expander.Write(.prev) .expander.Write(.info) .expander.Write([]byte{.counter}) .prev = .expander.Sum(.prev[:0]) .counter++ // Copy the new batch into p .buf = .prev = copy(, .buf) = [:] } // Save leftovers for next run .buf = .buf[:] return , nil } // Expand returns a Reader, from which keys can be read, using the given // pseudorandom key and optional context info, skipping the extraction step. // // The pseudorandomKey should have been generated by Extract, or be a uniformly // random or pseudorandom cryptographically strong key. See RFC 5869, Section // 3.3. Most common scenarios will want to use New instead. func ( func() hash.Hash, , []byte) io.Reader { := hmac.New(, ) return &hkdf{, .Size(), , 1, nil, nil} } // New returns a Reader, from which keys can be read, using the given hash, // secret, salt and context info. Salt and info can be nil. func ( func() hash.Hash, , , []byte) io.Reader { := Extract(, , ) return Expand(, , ) }