phc-discussions - "Predictable" vs "pseudorandom" KDFs

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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 08:45:42 -0500
From: Bill Cox <waywardgeek@...il.com>
To: discussions@...sword-hashing.net
Subject: "Predictable" vs "pseudorandom" KDFs

I need a short name for cache-timing-attack resistant KDFs which do no
password dependent memory addressing.  I use the phrase 20 times in my
paper, and "KDFs which do no password dependent memory addressing" is
a mouthful.  I also use "KDFs which do password dependent addressing
from the start" about 20 times, and I discuss my "hybrid" version,
which like Scrypt, does the no-password-addressing thing in the first
loop, and does the password-dependent thing in the second.

Could we call the first type "predictable" KDFs, since they do only
predictable address lookups?  The second type could be "pseudorandom"
KDFs.  Are these good names?  I find it is hard for a group to discuss
ideas that have no concise name.

Bill