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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: 2433
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 comment text, near the top of page 46, says:

 * Caveats:
 *   SHA-384 and SHA-512 are designed to work with messages less
 *   than 2^128 bits long. This implementation uses
 *   SHA384/512Input() to hash the bits that are a multiple of the
 *   size of an 8-bit character, and then uses SHA384/256FinalBits()
 *   to hash the final few bits of the input.

It should better say -- cf. item (6) and (13) above:

 * Caveats:
 *   SHA-384 and SHA-512 are designed to work with messages less
 *   than 2^128 bits long. This implementation uses SHA384/512Input()
 *   to hash the bits that are a multiple of the size of an 8-bit
|*   character, and optionally then uses SHA384/256FinalBits()
 *   to hash the final few bits of the input.

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