Re: [pkcs11] Action item #13

[Robert Relyea <rrelyea@redhat.com>]

I don't know how Jonathan is sending email, but it's showing up in a 
weird embeded, forwarded email. With some doing, I've stripped out what 
I think was in the heart of Jonathan's email:


On 7/22/21 11:39 AM, Jonathan Schulze-Hewett wrote:

> All,
>
> What does "DER-encoded octet value wrapped inside a DER-octet header 
> of the
> b-bit public key value in little endian order as defined in RFC 8032" 
> mean?
>
> Sections 6.3.5, 6.3.6, 6.3.7, and 6.3.8 were updated to this language 
> because
> they were inconsistent. They are now consistent across CKA_EC_POINT 
> public key
> values and CKA_VALUE private key values. They all start with the same
> "DER-encoded octet value wrapped inside a DER-octet header..." whereas
> previously they either had just "b-bit private key value in little endian
> order" or "DER-encoding of the b-bit public key".
>
> Are they an "ASN.1 DER-encoded OCTET STRING containing the b-bit..." 
> or does
> this mean something else?
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan