FYI: This problem already was in RFC 8152.

Note that RFC 8152 (and thus RFC 9053) registers its AES-CBC-MAC variants under 
the name “AES-MAC”, which may be a contributor to some confusion in the text 
describing the examples in C.5.1 and C.6.1 (despite the note: [1] [2], and 
further fueled by the actual examples using the full conventional name 
AES-CBC-MAC-256/64 in a comment instead of the registered name AES-MAC 256/64).

[1]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9053.html#section-3.2-1

   (Note that this is not the same
   algorithm as AES Cipher-Based Message Authentication Code (AES-CMAC)
   [RFC4493].)

[2]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8152#section-9.2

(There is some work outstanding on cleaning up and updating MACs in the COSE 
registry…)

Grüße, Carsten


> On Oct 31, 2025, at 10:40, RFC Errata System <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> The following errata report has been submitted for RFC9052,
> "CBOR Object Signing and Encryption (COSE): Structures and Process".
> 
> --------------------------------------
> You may review the report below and at:
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid8623
> 
> --------------------------------------
> Type: Editorial
> Reported by: Brian Sipos <[email protected]>
> 
> Section: C.5.1
> 
> Original Text
> -------------
> MAC: AES-CMAC, ...
> 
> Corrected Text
> --------------
> MAC: AES-CBC-MAC, ...
> 
> Notes
> -----
> The actual message diagnostic uses the correct algorithm name, but the 
> descriptive text calls it "AES-CMAC" which is a different algorithm (and one 
> not currently in the IANA registry).
> 
> Section C.6.1 has an identical typo.
> 
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> --------------------------------------
> RFC9052 (draft-ietf-cose-rfc8152bis-struct-15)
> --------------------------------------
> Title               : CBOR Object Signing and Encryption (COSE): Structures 
> and Process
> Publication Date    : August 2022
> Author(s)           : J. Schaad
> Category            : INTERNET STANDARD
> Source              : CBOR Object Signing and Encryption
> Stream              : IETF
> Verifying Party     : IESG
> 
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