[TLS] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC5054 (4546)

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The following errata report has been submitted for RFC5054,
"Using the Secure Remote Password (SRP) Protocol for TLS Authentication".

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You may review the report below and at:
http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=5054&eid=4546

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Type: Technical
Reported by: Rick van Rein <rick@openfortress.nl>

Section: 2.6

Original Text
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B = k*v + g^b % N

Corrected Text
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B = ( k*v + g^b ) % N

Notes
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The customary binding is that + has lower priority than % and so the default reading of the expression would be 
B = k*v + ( g^b % N )
That is inconsistent with the existence of PAD(B) and the size of B in the test vectors, so the context hints at proper brackets, but this may still lead to implementation errors (of which I actually ran into an example).

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RFC5054 (draft-ietf-tls-srp-14)
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Title               : Using the Secure Remote Password (SRP) Protocol for TLS Authentication
Publication Date    : November 2007
Author(s)           : D. Taylor, T. Wu, N. Mavrogiannopoulos, T. Perrin
Category            : INFORMATIONAL
Source              : Transport Layer Security
Area                : Security
Stream              : IETF
Verifying Party     : IESG