[Cryptography] (fwd) a tale of software maintenance: OpenSSL and EVP_CHECK_DES_KEY

Ryan Carboni ryacko at gmail.com
Tue Oct 13 17:52:11 EDT 2015


I have trouble figuring something out with TLS and this reminded me. I know
the cryptoperiod of the shared secret is however long both parties care to
store it, but what is the cryptoperiod of the secret key for the symmetric
cryptography? Each packet (certainly so for RC4, but what about the other
algos)?
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