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Why the byte length of KeyAgreement.generateSecret() is 20

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Why the byte length of KeyAgreement.generateSecret() is 20

Post by DaHuFa » Fri Jul 13, 2018 5:10 am

Hello,
I write a applet to implement KeyAgreement recently. I create a 256 bits EC key, then call KeyAgreement.generateSecret(). In the end, the length of result is 20 bytes. Why? My EC key length is 256 bits, 32 bytes. Why my result length is 20 bytes?
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Re: Why the byte length of KeyAgreement.generateSecret() is 20

Post by happy123654 » Fri Jul 13, 2018 5:12 am

Because the function implements SHA_1 calculation in the last step.
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Re: Why the byte length of KeyAgreement.generateSecret() is 20

Post by DaHuFa » Fri Jul 13, 2018 5:29 am

But my sample card which installed other's applet return 32 bytes. I think there maybe something I don't know....
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Re: Why the byte length of KeyAgreement.generateSecret() is 20

Post by BirdKing » Fri Jul 13, 2018 5:42 am

The sample applet maybe use ALG_EC_SVDP_DH_PLAIN.
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