RE: [office] http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/OFFICE-3027

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Dennis,

On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 11:00 -0700, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> I always read ":" as if it says "namely".
> 
> I agree that we could break it down and separate the provision from the illustration, now that there may be multiple ways to do these things.  
> 
> I left that text along because if the illustrative material were removed, there would be nothing different between 3.4.1 and 3.4.2.
> 
> Can we look at this after you have an editor-revision and we can review it all in context?
> 

Sure. I will go ahead an paste in the requested text as is and make a
note to post further suggestions on it to the list. 

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

>  - Dennis
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Durusau [mailto:patrick@durusau.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 10:39
> To: office
> Subject: [office] http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/OFFICE-3027
> 
> Greetings!
> 
> Working http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/OFFICE-3027 and the
> suggested text reads:
> 
> 
> > The three stages of the encryption process proceed as follows, using
> > the legacy algorithms to illustrate each stage: 
> 
> 3.4.2 of Part 3.
> 
> OK, but the first step reads:
> 
> 
> >      1. The start key is generated: The byte sequence representing the
> >         password in UTF-8 is used to generate a 20-byte SHA1 digest
> >         (see [RFC3174]).
> 
> Is the only *normative* text:
> 
> 1. The start key is generated:
> 
> ???
> 
> The rest is just note material? 
> 
> If it is illustration, I can make notes for each of the three steps. 
> 
> Or do we mean to specify any of this in the current standard? 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Patrick
> 
>