Re: [Gen-art] GEN-Art LC review of draft-ietf-jose-cfrg-curves-05

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Ilari,

Thanks for your response.  Could you propose text to address the last question?

Thanks,
Kathleen

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 9:20 AM, Ilari Liusvaara
<ilariliusvaara@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 02:21:27PM +0200, Jari Arkko wrote:
>> Thanks for your review, Roni!
>>
>> Authors, did you observe the editorial suggestions?
>
> Did the changes to Editor's Copy.
>
> The comment about corner-cases I just deleted[1].
>
>
> My understanding (I am a newbie to writing IETF RFCs) is that in this
> stage of process, I should not submit updated version without being
> told to do that (IIRC, by shepherd, AD or datatracker state).
>
>
>
>
> [1] Basically, ECDSA specifies that if the hash is longer than the
> bitlength of the order, the hash gets truncated.
>
> With NIST curves and hashes any such truncation is always to integral
> number of octets.
>
> However, Curve25519 is so small even SHA-256 would truncate, and
> since its order is ~2^252, the truncation would be to fractional
> number of octets.
>
>
>
> -Ilari.



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Best regards,
Kathleen




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