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Re: X942-03 Comments

1998-11-20 08:59:12
Al Arsenault <aarsenault(_at_)spyrus(_dot_)com> writes:
One minor nit on <draft-ieft-smime-x942-03>:  Section 2.1.2, you don't
fully explain how "counter" works.  You note that it has an initial value
of 1, but don't indicate whether it should be incremented based on number
of bytes, number of keys generated, etc.
Fair enough. 
How's the following language?

counter is a 32 bit number, represented in network byte order. Its
  initial value is 1 for any ZZ, i.e. the byte sequence 00 00 00 01 (hex),
  and it is incremented by one every time the above key generation
  function is run with a given ZZ.

-Ekr

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[Eric Rescorla                                   ekr(_at_)rtfm(_dot_)com]

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