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Indirectly violates RFC5869 Section 2.3 #2

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This specification creates a situation that indirectly violates RFC5869 HMAC-based Extract-and-Expand Key Derivation Function (HKDF) Section 2.3.

In Sender Key Derivation, the KeyRatchet is created based on a 16byte value, but when advancing the generation, a 32byte output is required to calculate the next internal state of the KeyRatchet. This violates the PRK requirements of RFC5869 HMAC-based Extract-and-Expand Key Derivation Function (HKDF) Section 2.3.

PRK a pseudorandom key of at least HashLen octets

It's probably not a problem security-wise in this case, but some libraries check for this requirement and it's a pure inconvenience.

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