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RFC 3058, "Use of the IDEA Encryption Algorithm in CMS", February 2001

Source of RFC: smime (sec)

Errata ID: 5913
Status: Held for Document Update
Type: Editorial
Publication Format(s) : TEXT

Reported By: Russ Housley
Date Reported: 2019-11-19
Held for Document Update by: Benjamin Kaduk
Date Held: 2019-11-23

Section 2 says:

     IDEA-CBC OBJECT IDENTIFIER
       ::= { iso(1) identified-organization(3)
           usdod(6) oid(1) private(4) enterprises(1)
           ascom(188) systec(7) security(1) algorithms(1) 2 }

It should say:

     id-IDEA-CBC OBJECT IDENTIFIER
       ::= { iso(1) identified-organization(3)
           usdod(6) oid(1) private(4) enterprises(1)
           ascom(188) systec(7) security(1) algorithms(1) 2 }

Notes:

ASN.1 requires that such an identifier begin with a lower case letter. The prefix of "id-" is a common approach to meeting this requirement for an OBJECT IDENTIFIER.

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