Re: leading zeros, odd digit counts in salt

[Roy Arends <roy@nominet.org.uk>]

owner-namedroppers@ops.ietf.org wrote on 09/06/2006 04:58:43 AM:

> 
>    *  The Salt field is represented as a sequence of case-insensitive 
>       hexadecimal digits.  Whitespace is not allowed within the
>       sequence.  The Salt Field is represented as "-" (without the 
>       quotes) when the Salt Length field has value 0.
> 
>    I think the above needs to be tightend to say that leading
>    zeros *are* significant and that there be pairs of hexadecimal
>    digits.  A salt is not a number and shouldn't be treated as
>    such.
> 
>    *  The Salt field is represented as a sequence of pairs of
>       case-insensitive hexadecimal digits.  Leading zeros are 
significant.
>       Whitespace is not allowed within the sequence.  The Salt Field
>       is represented as "-" (without the quotes) when the Salt
>       Length field has value 0.
> 
>    e.g. 00ff indicates a salt of length 2 with the first 8 bits set
>    to zero and the second 8 bits set to 1.

I agree. I'll add it to the draft.

Roy

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