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Add paragraph clarifying key generation #77

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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions draft-ietf-lamps-kyber-certificates.md
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Expand Up @@ -270,6 +270,10 @@ decapsulation key. The expanded private key (and public key)
is computed from the seed using `ML-KEM.KeyGen_internal(d,z)` (algorithm 16)
using the first 32 octets as *d* and the remaining 32 octets as *z*.

A keypair is generated by sampling 64 octets uniformly at random
for the seed (private key). The public key can then be computed
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using `ML-KEM.KeyGen_internal(d,z)` as described earlier.

"Asymmetric Key Packages" {{!RFC5958}} describes how to encode a private
key in a structure that both identifies what algorithm the private key
is for and allows for the public key and additional attributes about the
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