com.google.crypto.tink.subtle.prf

Interface StreamingPrf

All Known Implementing Classes:

HkdfStreamingPrf

@Immutable
public interface StreamingPrf

Streaming API Interface for Pseudo Random Function (Prf)

Security guarantees

Pseudorandom functions provide a mapping from an input to an output string which is indistinguishable from a pure random function.

In Tink, the pseudorandom interface produces a stream of pseudorandom bytes, from which the user can read. The resulting stream may be of (virtually) infinite length, producing bytes as long as the user reads from it, or it may produce a finite length stream of a certain length. More formally, ignoring timing, every implementation is indistinguishable in the input/output behavior from the following ideal implementation, for some length LENGTH.

   public class IdealPRF {
     private Map<byte[], byte[]> cache = new ArrayMap<>();
     private static final int LENGTH = ...; // Any value; conceptually, Infinite would also be ok.

     public InputStream apply(final byte[] input) {
       if (!cache.containsKey(input)) {
         cache.put(input, Random.getBytes(LENGTH)));
       }
       return new ByteArrayInputStream(cache.get(input));
     }
   }
 

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
InputStream	computePrf(byte[] input) Returns an InputStream which is indistinguishable from a stream returning random bytes in the above sense.

Method Detail

computePrf

InputStream computePrf(byte[] input)

Returns an InputStream which is indistinguishable from a stream returning random bytes in the above sense.