Subject: Re: draft-ietf-dhc-authentication-11.txt

From: "William A. Arbaugh" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 22:27:41 -0400 (EDT)

Yes you are correct.  The dangers of "cut and paste".

Bill

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a trivial question in draft-ietf-dhc-authentication-11.txt.
> 
> :4. Protocol 0
> :    +----------+----------+----------+----------+
> :    |   Code   |   n+1    |    0     |    0     |
> :    +----------+----------+----------+----------+-
> :    |           Global Replay Counter             ...
> :    +----------+----------+----------+----------+-
> :    |   Authentication token (n octets)           ...
> :    +----------+----------+----------+----------+-
> 
> :5.2 Format
> :    +----------+----------+----------+----------+
> :    |   Code   |    2     |    1     | Algorithm|
> :    +----------+----------+----------+----------+-
> :    |        Global Replay Counter                ...
> :    +----------+----------+----------+----------+-
> 
> If the length of 'Global Replay Counter' is 64 bit, it seems that 
> the Length fields above should be 'n+10' and '10' respectively.
> 
> Am I missing something?
> 
> Kenji Fujisawa
>