Re: [Curdle] Key examples in draft-ietf-curdle-pkix-03

[Benjamin Kaduk <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 07:18:11AM +0000, David Benjamin wrote:
> So we don't end up with two variants of this floating around (this thread
> gives one data point of the current text being misinterpreted), What do you
> think about these editorial changes?
> 
> 1. In the paragraph beginning "For the keys defined in this document
> [...]", add a sentence like "Note the opaque byte sequence is wrapped in
> OCTET STRINGs twice in total."
> 
> 2. EdPrivateKey sounds like this only applies to Ed* rather than both Ed*
> and X*. It should probably be renamed. But the best name I can come up with
> right now is PrivateKeyWrapper, which is terrible. Another option is to
> avoid defining a type and just say:
> 
>    For the keys defined in this document, the private key is always an
>    opaque byte sequence.  This is encoded in a OneAsymmetricKey
>    object by wrapping the sequence in an ASN.1 OCTET STRING
>    and placing its DER encoding in the 'privateKey' field. Note that
>    'privateKey' is itself an OCTET STRING, so the original byte
>    sequence is wrapped in OCTET STRINGs twice in total.

And/or have an appendix with an example of the full encoding for a given
dummy key?

-Ben