PRF

cryptography

Stands for: Pseudorandom Function

A function that stretches a secret into as much key material as a protocol needs.

A Pseudorandom Function takes a key and inputs and produces output indistinguishable from random. In TLS it derives the session keys from the negotiated secret; the cipher suite's trailing hash names the PRF hash in TLS 1.2.

Also known as: prf

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