Re: [smime] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC2631 (5954)

Ben:

It sounds like Hold for Document Update is the best way to handle this one.

Russ

> On Jan 7, 2020, at 10:36 PM, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> I could maybe see making this Hold For Document Update, as it would
> probably require some discussion, and it's hard to say that this was an
> omission at the time of original publication.
> 
> -Ben
> 
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 12:42:20PM -0800, RFC Errata System wrote:
>> The following errata report has been submitted for RFC2631,
>> "Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Method".
>> 
>> --------------------------------------
>> You may review the report below and at:
>> https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid5954
>> 
>> --------------------------------------
>> Type: Technical
>> Reported by: Paul Janson <silversplash@gmx.com>
>> 
>> Section: 2.1.5.
>> 
>> Original Text
>> -------------
>>     1. Verify that y lies within the interval [2,p-1]. If it does not,
>>        the key is invalid.
>>     2. Compute y^q mod p. If the result == 1, the key is valid.
>>        Otherwise the key is invalid.
>> 
>> 
>> Corrected Text
>> --------------
>>     1. Verify that y lies within the interval [2,p-1]. If it does not,
>>        the key is invalid.
>>     2. Compute y^q mod p. If the result == 1, the key is valid.
>>        Otherwise the key is invalid.
>> |    3. Verify that y does not match g.
>> 
>> 
>> Notes
>> -----
>> Validating that (g == received y) needs to be an additional exclusion to the valid range [2,p-1]. If party 'a' accepts received public key 'yb' matching 'g', then ZZ matches  public key 'ya'. i.e. if yb = 2, then xb = 1, therefore ZZ = ya^1 = ya
>> 
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>> 
>> --------------------------------------
>> RFC2631 (draft-ietf-smime-x942-07)
>> --------------------------------------
>> Title               : Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Method
>> Publication Date    : June 1999
>> Author(s)           : E. Rescorla
>> Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
>> Source              : S/MIME Mail Security
>> Area                : Security
>> Stream              : IETF
>> Verifying Party     : IESG
> 
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