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Re: [TLS] [Editorial Errata Reported] RFC4492 (4633)

Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@gmail.com> Thu, 03 March 2016 22:24 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] [Editorial Errata Reported] RFC4492 (4633)
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> On 2 Mar 2016, at 10:59 PM, Bodo Moeller <bmoeller@acm.org> wrote:
> 
> RFC Errata System <rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org <mailto:rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org>>:
> The following errata report has been submitted for RFC4492,
> "Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Cipher Suites for Transport Layer Security (TLS)".
> 
> --------------------------------------
> You may review the report below and at:
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=4492&eid=4633 <http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=4492&eid=4633>
> 
> --------------------------------------
> Type: Editorial
> Reported by: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be <mailto:kurt@roeckx.be>>
> 
> Section: 5.1.1
> 
> Original Text
> -------------
>         struct {
>             NamedCurve elliptic_curve_list<1..2^16-1>
>         } EllipticCurveList;
> 
> Corrected Text
> --------------
>         struct {
>             NamedCurve elliptic_curve_list<2..2^16-1>
>         } EllipticCurveList;
> 
> Notes
> -----
> The count is in bytes, not items.
> 
> I agree with this finding.  Each NamedCurve value takes exactly two bytes, so the floor should have been specified as 2, not 1.
> 
> Bodo

Yup. This should be closed as “held for document update”.

Speaking of which:
https://github.com/tlswg/rfc4492bis/pull/21 <https://github.com/tlswg/rfc4492bis/pull/21>

Yoav

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