RFC Errata
RFC 9580, "OpenPGP", July 2024
Source of RFC: openpgp (sec)See Also: RFC 9580 w/ inline errata
Errata ID: 8465
Status: Verified
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT, PDF, HTML
Reported By: Heiko Schaefer
Date Reported: 2025-06-18
Verifier Name: Paul Wouters
Date Verified: 2025-06-18
Section 5.5.3 says:
A point on an elliptic curve will always be represented on the wire as an MPI.
It should say:
TBD
Notes:
This and the following paragraphs don't mention the case of "native" secret key representations. The text should acknowledge the existence of MPIs as well as natively encoded points.
