Re: [pkix] draft-turner-additional-methods-4kis to ISE - truncation

"Manger, James H" <James.H.Manger@team.telstra.com> Fri, 22 June 2012 01:50 UTC

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From: "Manger, James H" <James.H.Manger@team.telstra.com>
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> > I'll add "(i.e., leftmost)" after "least significant bits".

Please keep "leftmost", but completely drop "least significant".
In a DER-encoded integer, for example, the least significant bits are the rightmost bits.

> Yup, an example helps showing truncation to "leftmost bits".

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James Manger