RFC 4490, "Using the GOST 28147-89, GOST R 34.11-94, GOST R 34.10-94, and GOST R 34.10-2001 Algorithms with Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)", May 2006

Errata ID: 1884
Status: Rejected
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Alfred Hoenes
Date Reported: 2009-09-17
Rejected by: Tim Polk
Date Rejected: 2010-07-20

Section 2.1, pg. 4 says:

   When the Message Digest authenticated attribute is present, the
|  DigestedData digest contains a 32-byte digest in little-endian
   representation:

It should say:

   When the Message Digest authenticated attribute is present, the
|  DigestedData digest contains a 32-byte digest in big-endian
   representation:

Notes:

Rationale:
- Contradiction to other parts of the document,
which use "big-endian" == 'network byte order'
as established in the Internet architecture.
- Please also note that the ASN.1 BER/DER encoding is
based on the 'natural' byte order for left-to-right
scripts -- otherwise the intrinsically variable-length
representation used would be very complicated to deal
with in processing.
- Intrduction of varying endian-ness is a likely source
of implementation issues and, consequentially,
interoperability problems.
--VERIFIER NOTES--
authors confirmed that the DigestedData digest is encoded in little-endian representation in all
known implementations.

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