Re: [TLS] [Editorial Errata Reported] RFC8422 (5468)

Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> Fri, 17 August 2018 08:26 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] [Editorial Errata Reported] RFC8422 (5468)
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I think “namedCurve” is better, it matches ASN.1 usage.

/Simon

> 17 aug. 2018 kl. 04:21 skrev RFC Errata System <rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org>:
> 
> The following errata report has been submitted for RFC8422,
> "Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Cipher Suites for Transport Layer Security (TLS) Versions 1.2 and Earlier".
> 
> --------------------------------------
> You may review the report below and at:
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid5468
> 
> --------------------------------------
> Type: Editorial
> Reported by: Masato Gosui <mgosui@yahoo-corp.jp>
> 
> Section: 5.4
> 
> Original Text
> -------------
>   namedCurve: Specifies a recommended set of elliptic curve domain
> 
> Corrected Text
> --------------
>   namedcurve: Specifies a recommended set of elliptic curve domain
> 
> Notes
> -----
> This fixes mismatched names of the variable "namedcurve" in the "Structure of this message" paragraph.
> 
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> --------------------------------------
> RFC8422 (draft-ietf-tls-rfc4492bis-17)
> --------------------------------------
> Title               : Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Cipher Suites for Transport Layer Security (TLS) Versions 1.2 and Earlier
> Publication Date    : August 2018
> Author(s)           : Y. Nir, S. Josefsson, M. Pegourie-Gonnard
> Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
> Source              : Transport Layer Security
> Area                : Security
> Stream              : IETF
> Verifying Party     : IESG