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Re: [TLS] I-D Action: draft-ietf-tls-chacha20-poly1305-01.txt

Adam Langley <agl@imperialviolet.org> Fri, 06 November 2015 19:12 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] I-D Action: draft-ietf-tls-chacha20-poly1305-01.txt
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On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Benjamin Kaduk <bkaduk@akamai.com> wrote:
> %   1.  The 64-bit record sequence number is serialized as an 8-byte,
> %       big-endian value and padded on the left with 4 zeroes.
>
> I assume you mean zero octets/bytes, and not ASCII '0' (or EBCDIC, or ...)
>
> "padded on the left" also has some potential for ambiguity (though not as much); something about "four zero octets are prepended to the stream" might be less ambiguous.

Sorry, I missed seeing this for -02, but I now have locally, for the
next revision:

"The 64-bit record sequence number is serialized as an 8-byte,
big-endian value and padded on the left with four 0x00 bytes."


Cheers

AGL

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