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Re: [smime] [Editorial Errata Reported] RFC3218 (5072)

Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com> Tue, 25 July 2017 19:16 UTC

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From: Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com>
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Subject: Re: [smime] [Editorial Errata Reported] RFC3218 (5072)
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It seems that the author copied the reference from RFC 2630, where the digits were first transposed.  The errata was marked as "Verified" against RFC 2630, so we should probably be consistent and do the same here.

Russ


> On Jul 25, 2017, at 8:43 AM, RFC Errata System <rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org> wrote:
> 
> The following errata report has been submitted for RFC3218,
> "Preventing the Million Message Attack on Cryptographic Message Syntax".
> 
> --------------------------------------
> You may review the report below and at:
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid5072
> 
> --------------------------------------
> Type: Editorial
> Reported by: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <kon@iki.fi>
> 
> Section: 4
> 
> Original Text
> -------------
>   [PKCS-1-v2]   Kaliski, B., "PKCS #1: RSA Encryption, Version 2.0",
>                 RFC 2347, October 1998.
> 
> 
> Corrected Text
> --------------
>   [PKCS-1-v2]   Kaliski, B., "PKCS #1: RSA Cryptography Specifications,
>                 Version 2.0", RFC 2437, October 1998.
> 
> 
> Notes
> -----
> RFC 2347 is "TFTP Option Extension", unrelated to PKCS.
> 
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> 
> --------------------------------------
> RFC3218 (draft-ietf-smime-pkcs1-01)
> --------------------------------------
> Title               : Preventing the Million Message Attack on Cryptographic Message Syntax
> Publication Date    : January 2002
> Author(s)           : E. Rescorla
> Category            : INFORMATIONAL
> Source              : S/MIME Mail Security
> Area                : Security
> Stream              : IETF
> Verifying Party     : IESG
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