[Curdle] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC8410 (6229)

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Subject: [Curdle] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC8410 (6229)
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The following errata report has been submitted for RFC8410,
"Algorithm Identifiers for Ed25519, Ed448, X25519, and X448 for Use in the Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure".

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You may review the report below and at:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid6229

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Type: Technical
Reported by: David von Oheimb <David.von.Oheimb@siemens.com>

Section: 10.2

Original Text
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An example of a self-issued PKIX certificate using Ed25519 to sign an
X25519 public key would be

Corrected Text
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Notes
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The given example certificate is self-issued but not self-signed (which is fine because its public key cannot be used for signing).
It includes a subjectKeyIdentifier but not an authorityKeyIdentifier.

For not self-signed certificates RFC 5280 requires in section 4.2.1.1 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5280#section-4.2.1.1) that the authorityKeyIdentifier is present.

Thus for such an example certificate the authorityKeyIdentifier MUST be added in order to be a conforming certificate.
Otherwise, cert chain validation will be mislead to assume that the certificate is self-signed (while usually not actually verifying this supposition).

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RFC8410 (draft-ietf-curdle-pkix-10)
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Title               : Algorithm Identifiers for Ed25519, Ed448, X25519, and X448 for Use in the Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure
Publication Date    : August 2018
Author(s)           : S. Josefsson, J. Schaad
Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
Source              : CURves, Deprecating and a Little more Encryption
Area                : Security
Stream              : IETF
Verifying Party     : IESG