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RFC 3447, "Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) #1: RSA Cryptography Specifications Version 2.1", February 2003

Note: This RFC has been obsoleted by RFC 8017

Source of RFC: IETF - NON WORKING GROUP
Area Assignment: sec
See Also: RFC 3447 w/ inline errata

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Errata ID: 595
Status: Verified
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Alfred Hoenes
Date Reported: 2003-08-28

Section 9.1 says:

                                  +-----------+
                                  |     M     |
                                  +-----------+
                                        |
                                        V
                                      Hash
                                        |
                                        V
                          +--------+----------+----------+
                     M' = |Padding1|  mHash   |   salt   |
                          +--------+----------+----------+
                                         |
               +--------+----------+     V
         DB =  |Padding2|maskedseed|   Hash
               +--------+----------+     |
                         |               |
                         V               |    +--+
                        xor <--- MGF <---|    |bc|
                         |               |    +--+
                         |               |      |
                         V               V      V
               +-------------------+----------+--+
         EM =  |    maskedDB       |maskedseed|bc|
               +-------------------+----------+--+

It should say:

                                  +-----------+
                                  |     M     |
                                  +-----------+
                                        |
                                        V
                                      Hash
                                        |
                                        V
                          +--------+----------+----------+
                     M' = |Padding1|  mHash   |   salt   |
                          +--------+----------+----------+
                                         |
               +--------+----------+     V
         DB =  |Padding2|   salt   |   Hash
               +--------+----------+     |
                         |               |
                         V               |    +--+
                        xor <--- MGF <---|    |bc|
                         |               |    +--+
                         |               |      |
                         V               V      V
               +-------------------+----------+--+
         EM =  |    maskedDB       |     H    |bc|
               +-------------------+----------+--+

Notes:

Figure 2 names two fields "maskedseed" which in fact are _very_
different, and this nomenclature matches neither the figure
caption given nor the subsequent text -- see e.g. 'step 6.' and
'step 8.' on page 39 and 'step 12.' on page 40.

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