(slight) Error in rfc2440
Jan Petranek <jan.petranek@student.uni-tuebingen.de> Tue, 02 October 2001 16:31 UTC
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Subject: (slight) Error in rfc2440
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Hello out there, I just read the rfc2440 (on OpenPGP), dated from November 1998 and it seems, there is an error in it. In section 2.1. "Confidentiality via Encryption", it says: "With public-key encryption, the object is encrypted using a symmetric encryption algorithm." I believe, it should read "With symmetric-key encryption, the object is encrypted using a symmetric ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ encryption algorithm." I believe, the author intended to talk about the symmetric encryption here, because in the next sentences, he discusses the role of symmetric encryption used in OpenPGP. Furthermore, if the key of a symmetric encryption would be public, as the original text suggests, it would render the encryption completely worthless. As I'm already messing with the rfc, I just as well may add this suggestion: In the section describing the paket lenghts, the lenghts in the text are written in decimal, where they are written in octal in the examples (of course). It might improve readability, if in the text both notations would be used, like "100 (0x64) pakets will follow" With my best whishes, Jan Petranek
- (slight) Error in rfc2440 Jan Petranek
- Re: (slight) Error in rfc2440 Jon Callas