ACTION-303 Correct doc on length of r and s from Kelvin Yiu on 2009-06-08 (public-xmlsec@w3.org from June 2009)

From: Kelvin Yiu <kelviny@exchange.microsoft.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 13:50:47 -0700
To: "public-xmlsec@w3.org" <public-xmlsec@w3.org>
Message-ID: <EF8BB8116404AE42A67EF8BECBC14487BE20D1DE@DF-POINTER-MSG.exchange.corp.microsoft>

The text in section 6.4.3 has been updated from:

Integer to octet-stream conversion must be done according to the I2OSP operation defined in the RFC 2437 [ PKCS1 ] specification with the l parameter equal to the size of the output of the digest function in bytes (e.g. 32 for SHA-256).

to:

Integer to octet-stream conversion must be done according to the I2OSP operation defined in the RFC 2437 [ PKCS1 ] specification with the l parameter equal to the size of the base point order of the curve in bytes (e.g. 32 for the P-256 curve).

Comments?

Kelvin

Received on Monday, 8 June 2009 20:53:02 UTC