Re: [Acme] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC8555 (5983)

Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> Tue, 25 February 2020 01:46 UTC

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Authors, should this be marked Verified?

Thanks,

Ben

On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 10:18:53AM -0800, RFC Errata System wrote:
> The following errata report has been submitted for RFC8555,
> "Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME)".
> 
> --------------------------------------
> You may review the report below and at:
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid5983
> 
> --------------------------------------
> Type: Technical
> Reported by: Jason Baker <thebaker@google.com>
> 
> Section: 9.1
> 
> Original Text
> -------------
>    A file of this type contains one or more certificates encoded with
>    the PEM textual encoding, according to [RFC7468].  The textual
>    encoding of certificates in this file MUST use the strict encoding
>    and MUST NOT include explanatory text.  The ABNF for this format is
>    as follows, where "stricttextualmsg" and "eol" are as defined in
>    Section 3 of RFC 7468:
> 
>    certchain = stricttextualmsg *(eol stricttextualmsg)
> 
> Corrected Text
> --------------
>    A file of this type contains one or more certificates encoded with
>    the PEM textual encoding, according to [RFC7468].  The textual
>    encoding of certificates in this file MUST use the strict encoding
>    and MUST NOT include explanatory text.  The ABNF for this format is
>    as follows, where "stricttextualmsg" is as defined in
>    Section 3 of RFC 7468:
> 
>    certchain = stricttextualmsg *(stricttextualmsg)
> 
> Notes
> -----
> Examples within RFC 8555 indicate that only one EOL should be present between entries in the PEM chain.
> 
> RFC 7468 already defines a stricttextualmsg as ending with EOL
> stricttextualmsg = preeb eol
>                            strictbase64text
>                            posteb eol
> 
> If a second EOL is to be added before each strict textual message this would result in a blank line between entries.  The prior example in https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8555#section-7.4.2 indicates an intention for only one EOL marker to be used:
>    -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
>    [End-entity certificate contents]
>    -----END CERTIFICATE-----
>    -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
>    [Issuer certificate contents]
>    -----END CERTIFICATE-----
>    -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
>    [Other certificate contents]
>    -----END CERTIFICATE-----
> 
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> 
> --------------------------------------
> RFC8555 (draft-ietf-acme-acme-18)
> --------------------------------------
> Title               : Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME)
> Publication Date    : March 2019
> Author(s)           : R. Barnes, J. Hoffman-Andrews, D. McCarney, J. Kasten
> Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
> Source              : Automated Certificate Management Environment
> Area                : Security
> Stream              : IETF
> Verifying Party     : IESG