Pre master secret key generation for RSA key exchange suite

Pre master secret key generation for the RSA key exchange suite in WTLS denoted CKM_WTLS_PRE_MASTER_KEY_GEN, is a mechanism, which generates a variable length secret key. It is used to produce the pre master secret key for RSA key exchange suite used in WTLS. This mechanism returns a handle to the pre master secret key.

It has one parameter, a CK_BYTE, which provides the client's WTLS version.

The mechanism contributes the CKA_CLASS, CKA_KEY_TYPE and CKA_VALUE attributes to the new key (as well as the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute, if it is not supplied in the template). Other attributes may be specified in the template, or else are assigned default values.

The template sent along with this mechanism during a C_GenerateKey call may indicate that the object class is CKO_SECRET_KEY, the key type is CKK_GENERIC_SECRET, and the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute indicates the length of the pre master secret key.

For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize field of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure shall indicate 20 bytes.

RSA Security Inc. Public-Key Cryptography Standards - PKCS#11 - v220