Extracted from Pike v8.0 release 164 as of 2016-04-05.
   

Method Standards.PEM.derive_key()


Method derive_key

string(8bit) derive_key(string(8bit) password, string(8bit) salt, int bytes)

Description

Key derivation function used in PEM.

FIXME

Derived from OpenSSL. Is there any proper specification?

It seems to be related to PBKDF1 from RFC2898.