BIPinformationalkey-management

[BIP151] Switch from plain HMAC_SHA512 KDF to HKDF

HKDF seems to be the better approach to derive symmetric cipher keys from the ECDH shared secret. Discussion: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-July/012878.html ping @Roasbeef @sipa @gmaxwell @zooko

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HKDF seems to be the better approach to derive symmetric cipher keys from the ECDH shared secret.

Discussion: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-July/012878.html

ping @Roasbeef @sipa @gmaxwell @zooko

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