RFC 2865, "Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)", June 2000

Note: This RFC has been updated by RFC 2868, RFC 3575, RFC 5080, RFC 6929, RFC 8044

Errata ID: 2712
Status: Verified
Type: Editorial
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Wang Haojian
Date Reported: 2011-02-12
Verifier Name: Dan Romascanu
Date Verified: 2011-02-13

Section 5 says:

      Note that none of the types in RADIUS terminate with a NUL (hex
      00).  In particular, types "text" and "string" in RADIUS do not
      terminate with a NUL (hex 00).  The Attribute has a length field
      and does not use a terminator.  Text contains UTF-8 encoded 10646
      [7] characters and String contains 8-bit binary data.  Servers and
      servers and clients MUST be able to deal with embedded nulls.
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^

It should say:

      Note that none of the types in RADIUS terminate with a NUL (hex
      00).  In particular, types "text" and "string" in RADIUS do not
      terminate with a NUL (hex 00).  The Attribute has a length field
      and does not use a terminator.  Text contains UTF-8 encoded 10646
      [7] characters and String contains 8-bit binary data.  Servers and
      clients MUST be able to deal with embedded nulls.

Notes:

Unnecessary Words.

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