OpenSAML user discussion

["Cantor, Scott E." <>]

> Is this possible and, if so, how would I go about doing it?  Assuming that 
> it is
> possible, are there any drawbacks to doing this?

I think there are technically key hygiene issues involved in using a key more 
than once, but I really don't know when it's ok or not ok. I think the usual 
approach is to use key derivation off of a master key to do more than one 
encryption operation, which I doubt is supported.

I know how to, sort of, manage using a fixed AES key in my library, no idea 
about Java, which I'll assume is what you're asking about since you didn't 
specify.

-- Scott