[MLS] question about group contexts and deriving epoch secrets

[Hubert Chathi <[e-mail]>]

When deriving the epoch secret, you do "ExpandWithLabel(., "epoch", GroupContext_[n], KDF.Nh)", so you need a GroupContext.  As far as I can tell, there appears to be a contradiction about which GroupContext to use: in the "Key Schedule" section (Line 1404), it says to use "The GroupContext object for current epoch", but in the "Commit" section under the part talking about a group member who applies a Commit message (Line 2660), it says to use the provisional GroupContext.  (The part talking about the group member who creates the Commit message doesn't say which GroupContext to use.)  If we are supposed to use the "new" GroupContext (after applying both the proposals and the update), but if we are supposed to use the provisional GroupContext, then I don't think that a new member has access to the tree_hash or confirmed_transcript_hash to create the GroupContext needed to derive the epoch secret.  So it seems like the "new" GroupContext should be correct, but Line 2660 is pretty explicit about using the provisional GroupContext.