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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 GROUP
Area Assignment: sec

Errata ID: 2412
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 3 says:

Section 3 of RFC 4634, on page 5, defines the elementary word
operations to be used subsequently in the text, including the
left shift operation, '<<'.  Unfortunately, the right shift
operation '>>' is used frequently as well, but not defined
in Section 3.

I propose to amend the second paragraph of Section 3, on page 5,

   In the operations below, x<<n is obtained as follows: discard the
   left-most n bits of x and then pad the result with n zeroed bits on
   the right (the result will still be the same number of bits).

It should say:

to read:

   In the operations below, x<<n is obtained as follows: discard the
   left-most n bits of x and then pad the result with n zeroed bits on
   the right (the result will still be the same number of bits).
|  Similarly, x>>n is obtained as follows: discard the right-most n bits
|  of x and then prepend the result with n zeroed bits on the left (the
|  result will still be the same number of bits).

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