Subject: [COSE] [Errata Held for Document Update] RFC8152 (5533)

From: RFC Errata System <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 17:12:04 -0700 (PDT)

The following errata report has been held for document update 
for RFC8152, "CBOR Object Signing and Encryption (COSE)". 

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You may review the report below and at:
http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid5533

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Status: Held for Document Update
Type: Editorial

Reported by: Jian Huang <[email-masked]>
Date Reported: 2018-10-18
Held by: Benjamin Kaduk (IESG)

Section: 3.1

Original Text
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   alg:  This parameter is used to indicate the algorithm used for the
      security processing.  This parameter MUST be authenticated where
      the ability to do so exists.  This support is provided by AEAD
      algorithms or construction (COSE_Sign, COSE_Sign0, COSE_Mac, and
      COSE_Mac0).

Corrected Text
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   alg:  This parameter is used to indicate the algorithm used for the
      security processing.  This parameter MUST be authenticated where
      the ability to do so exists.  This support is provided by AEAD
      algorithms or construction (COSE_Sign, COSE_Sign1, COSE_Mac, and
      COSE_Mac0).

Notes
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COSE_Sign0 is only mentioned once in the document, but COSE_Sign1 appears many times.

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RFC8152 (draft-ietf-cose-msg-24)
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Title               : CBOR Object Signing and Encryption (COSE)
Publication Date    : July 2017
Author(s)           : J. Schaad
Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
Source              : CBOR Object Signing and Encryption
Area                : Security
Stream              : IETF
Verifying Party     : IESG