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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: 750
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 8.4 says: 

on mid-page 96, the code section,

  if (bitcount > 0)
    err = keyarray ? hmacFinalBits(&hmac, bits, bitcount) :
                   USHAFinalBits(&sha, bits, bitcount);
  if (err != shaSuccess) {
    fprintf(stderr, "hashfile(): %s Error %d.\n",
            keyarray ? "hmacResult" : "shaResult", err);
    if (hashfp != stdin) fclose(hashfp);
    return err;
  }

should in fact say:

  if (bitcount > 0)
    err = keyarray ? hmacFinalBits(&hmac, bits, bitcount) :
                   USHAFinalBits(&sha, bits, bitcount);
  if (err != shaSuccess) {
    fprintf(stderr, "hashfile(): %s Error %d.\n",
            keyarray ? "hmacFinalBits" : "shaFinalBits", err);
    if (hashfp != stdin) fclose(hashfp);
    return err;
  }

Rationale:

Self-evident; perhaps cloning error.

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