- From: Pratik Datta <pratik.datta@oracle.com>
- Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:11:44 -0700
- To: Kelvin Yiu <kelviny@exchange.microsoft.com>
- CC: "public-xmlsec@w3.org" <public-xmlsec@w3.org>
Although it probably obvious, I would prefer that make it explicit that one needs to round up when converting length in bits to bytes. Also using P-521 as an example instead of P-256 will make illustrate this rounding up. Pratik Kelvin Yiu wrote: > 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 > >
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