RFC 5802, "Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism (SCRAM) SASL and GSS-API Mechanisms", July 2010

Note: This RFC has been updated by RFC 7677, RFC 9266

Errata ID: 2651
Status: Verified
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Jehan Pagès
Date Reported: 2010-11-30
Verifier Name: Sean Turner
Date Verified: 2011-03-09

Section 7 says:

   nonce           = "r=" c-nonce [s-nonce]
                     ;; Second part provided by server.

   c-nonce         = printable

   s-nonce         = printable

It should say:

   nonce           = "r=" c-nonce [s-nonce]
                     ;; Second part provided by server.

   c-nonce         = 1*(printable)

   s-nonce         = 1*(printable)

Notes:

"printable" is defined this way:
printable = %x21-2B / %x2D-7E
;; Printable ASCII except ",".
;; Note that any "printable" is also
;; a valid "value".

Hence a "printable" is a single printable character (except ','). But a nonce is a "a sequence of random printable ASCII characters excluding ','" (section 5.1), as can also be seen by the examples (and common sense for a security feature using randomness).

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