Re: [Cfrg] Comment on draft-irtf-cfrg-eddsa

Ilari Liusvaara <ilariliusvaara@welho.com> Wed, 06 July 2016 19:27 UTC

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Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2016 22:27:10 +0300
From: Ilari Liusvaara <ilariliusvaara@welho.com>
To: Jim Schaad <ietf@augustcellars.com>
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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] Comment on draft-irtf-cfrg-eddsa
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On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 11:40:14AM -0700, Jim Schaad wrote:
> I was going through the document doing a bad implementation and I ran across
> the following issue.
> 
> In Table 1 there is constant 'a' defined as being -1.
> In section 5.1.6, the first step defines a new variable 'a'. As this is not
> strongly highlighted, the variable is defined in the middle of a sentence, I
> missed that it was being defined as I worked things out and had a problem.
> 
> I would suggest that one or the other variables be re-named so that the
> confusion does not exist.

Renamed to 's' in Editor's Copy (that also seems to be the letter the generic
EdDSA description used).


-Ilari