On 27 Feb 2005, at 2:21 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
* Jon Callas:
This language has been sitting in 2440 and followons since '97. No one
has ever had a problem implementing it, no one has had an
interoperability issue with bignums. Not PGP, nor GnuPG, nor Hushmail,
nor Cryptix, nor Forum, nor Bouncy Castle, nor anyone else.
Not true. GnuPG had a bug in MPI handling because it followed the
language in RFC 2440 too verbatim. 8-)
(You added a hint to 2440bis a few years ago, so others hopefully
won't make the same mistake.)
Thanks. Mea culpa.
However, I think with the explicit note that unused bits must be zero,
we're real clear on it.
Jon