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: 2432
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 8.2.3 says:
The initial Description in this file, on page 45, says: * Description: * This file implements the Secure Hash Signature Standard * algorithms as defined in the National Institute of Standards * and Technology Federal Information Processing Standards * Publication (FIPS PUB) 180-1 published on April 17, 1995, 180-2 * published on August 1, 2002, and the FIPS PUB 180-2 Change * Notice published on February 28, 2004. It should say: * Description: * This file implements the Secure Hash Algorithms SHA-384 and * SHA-512, as defined in the National Institute of Standards * and Technology Federal Information Processing Standards * Publication (FIPS PUB) 180-2 published on August 1, 2002, and * the FIPS PUB 180-2 Change Notice published on February 28, 2004. Rationale: FIPS-PUB 180-1 only specified SHA-1, neither SHA-384 nor SHA-512. FIPS-PUB 180-2 has introduced SHA-384 and SHA-512 (and SHA-256 as well), and the "Change Notice 1" has introduced SHA-224. Thus, citation of FIPS PUB 180-1 is void and inappropriate in the context of SHA-384 and SHA-512. Avoiding the term "Signature" also conforms to the above Standards -- cf. item (4), (5), and (12) above. Restricting the text to the scope of the file -- cf. item (5) and (12) above.