RFC Errata
RFC 4634, "US Secure Hash Algorithms (SHA and HMAC-SHA)", July 2006
Note: This RFC has been obsoleted by RFC 6234
Source of RFC: IETF - NON WORKING GROUPArea Assignment: sec
Errata ID: 2417
Status: Held for Document Update
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Alfred Hoenes
Date Reported: 2006-08-13
Held for Document Update by: Sean Turner
Date Held: 2010-08-06
Section 8.2.1 says:
The comment text, at the bottom of page 24, says: * Caveats: * SHA-1 is designed to work with messages less than 2^64 bits * long. This implementation uses SHA1Input() to hash the bits * that are a multiple of the size of an 8-bit character, and then * uses SHA1FinalBits() to hash the final few bits of the input. */
It should say:
It should better say: * Caveats: * SHA-1 is designed to work with messages less than 2^64 bits * long. This implementation uses SHA1Input() to hash the bits * that are a multiple of the size of an 8-bit character, and then |* optionally uses SHA1FinalBits() to hash the final few bits of * the input. */