 is used to specify the intended usage of the output bits, as per RFC 7292 section B.3.</p>

</dd>
</dl>

<h1 id="NOTES">NOTES</h1>

<p>This algorithm is not available in the FIPS provider as it is not FIPS approvable.</p>

<p>A typical application of this algorithm is to derive keying material for an encryption algorithm from a password in the &quot;pass&quot;, a salt in &quot;salt&quot;, and an iteration count.</p>

<p>Increasing the &quot;iter&quot; parameter slows down the algorithm which makes it harde