expanding a password into many keys

[Ian G]

I'd like to take a password and expand it into
several keys.  It seems like a fairly simple operation
of hashing the concatonatonation of the password
with each key name in turn to get each key.

Are there any 'gotchas' with that?

iang

PS: some psuedo code if the above is not clear.

for k in {set of keys needed}
do
    key[k] = sha1( pass | k );
done

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