[Technical Errata Reported] RFC5912 (6806)

The following errata report has been submitted for RFC5912,
"New ASN.1 Modules for the Public Key Infrastructure Using X.509 (PKIX)".

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You may review the report below and at:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid6806

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Type: Technical
Reported by: Carl Wallace <[email protected]>

Section: 6

Original Text
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   pk-rsa PUBLIC-KEY ::= {
    IDENTIFIER rsaEncryption
    KEY RSAPublicKey
    PARAMS TYPE NULL ARE absent
    -- Private key format not in this module --
    CERT-KEY-USAGE {digitalSignature, nonRepudiation,
    keyEncipherment, dataEncipherment, keyCertSign, cRLSign}
   }

Corrected Text
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   pk-rsa PUBLIC-KEY ::= {
    IDENTIFIER rsaEncryption
    KEY RSAPublicKey
    PARAMS TYPE NULL ARE required
    -- Private key format not in this module --
    CERT-KEY-USAGE {digitalSignature, nonRepudiation,
    keyEncipherment, dataEncipherment, keyCertSign, cRLSign}
   }

Notes
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Section 2.3.1 of RFC 3279 states "(t)he parameters field MUST have ASN.1 type NULL for this algorithm identifier."

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RFC5912 (draft-ietf-pkix-new-asn1-08)
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Title               : New ASN.1 Modules for the Public Key Infrastructure Using X.509 (PKIX)
Publication Date    : June 2010
Author(s)           : P. Hoffman, J. Schaad
Category            : INFORMATIONAL
Source              : Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509)
Area                : Security
Stream              : IETF
Verifying Party     : IESG