Re: Diffie Hellman

I'm working on Section 5 right now...

Donald

From:  merlin <merlin@baltimore.ie>
To:  xml-encryption@w3.org
In-reply-to:  <3C6D4CCC.1E95C9BC@phaos.com> 
Date:  Fri, 15 Feb 2002 21:47:20 +0000
Message-Id:  <20020215214720.366A743CEA@yog-sothoth.ie.baltimore.com>

>Hi,
>
>The Diffie Hellman part of the spec is somewhat ambiguous at the moment:
>
>. It is not clear whether PKCS#3 or X.942 should be used. The reference
>  suggests the latter; the public key encoding suggests the former.
>
>. Keying material generation is somewhat ambiguous; the examples suggest
>  algorithm first, the language suggests ZZ first; the examples suggest
>  the counter is one byte, the language suggests two hexadecimal digits.
>
>Any guidance so we can nail down DH interop?
>
>Thanks, Merlin
>
>
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