Thank you, Tero.  I'll reject this errata.

Best regards,
Kathleen 

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> On Mar 24, 2015, at 11:04 AM, Tero Kivinen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> RFC Errata System writes:
>> The following errata report has been submitted for RFC7427,
>> "Signature Authentication in the Internet Key Exchange Version 2 (IKEv2)".
>> 
>> --------------------------------------
>> You may review the report below and at:
>> http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=7427&eid=4296
>> 
>> --------------------------------------
>> Type: Editorial
>> Reported by: Annie Yousar <[email protected]>
>> 
>> Section: A.4.3
>> 
>> Original Text
>> -------------
>>   Here the parameters are present and contain hashAlgorithm of SHA-256,
>> |  maskGenAlgorithm of SHA-256, saltLength of 32, and trailerField of 1.
>> 
>>   0000 : SEQUENCE
>>   0002 :   OBJECT IDENTIFIER  RSASSA-PSS (1.2.840.113549.1.1.10)
>>   000d :   SEQUENCE
>>   000f :     CONTEXT 0
>>   0011 :       SEQUENCE
>>   0013 :         OBJECT IDENTIFIER  id-sha256 (2.16.840.1.101.3.4.2.1)
>>   001e :         NULL
>>   0020 :     CONTEXT 1
>>   0022 :       SEQUENCE
>> |  0024 :         OBJECT IDENTIFIER  1.2.840.113549.1.1.8
>>   002f :         SEQUENCE
>>   0031 :           OBJECT IDENTIFIER id-sha256 (2.16.840.1.101.3.4.2.1)
>>   003c :           NULL
>>   003e :     CONTEXT 2
>>   0040 :       INTEGER   0x20 (6 bits)
>> |  0043 :     CONTEXT 3
>> |  0045 :       INTEGER   0x1 (1 bits)
>> 
>>   Name = RSASSA-PSS with sha-256, oid = 1.2.840.113549.1.1.10
>> |  Length = 72
>>   0000: 3046 0609 2a86 4886 f70d 0101 0a30 39a0
>>   0010: 0f30 0d06 0960 8648 0165 0304 0201 0500
>>   0020: a11c 301a 0609 2a86 4886 f70d 0101 0830
>>   0030: 0d06 0960 8648 0165 0304 0201 0500 a203
>> |  0040: 0201 20a3 0302 0101
>> 
>> 
>> Corrected Text
>> --------------
>>   Here the parameters are present and contain hashAlgorithm of SHA-256,
>> |  maskGenAlgorithm of MGF1 with SHA-256, saltLength of 32, and 
>> |  trailerField of 1.
>> |  Note that since the trailerField has the default value it MUST NOT be
>> |  encoded according to the Distiguished Encoding Rules (DER) of ASN.1.
>> 
>>   0000 : SEQUENCE
>>   0002 :   OBJECT IDENTIFIER  RSASSA-PSS (1.2.840.113549.1.1.10)
>>   000d :   SEQUENCE
>>   000f :     CONTEXT 0
>>   0011 :       SEQUENCE
>>   0013 :         OBJECT IDENTIFIER  id-sha256 (2.16.840.1.101.3.4.2.1)
>>   001e :         NULL
>>   0020 :     CONTEXT 1
>>   0022 :       SEQUENCE
>> |  0024 :         OBJECT IDENTIFIER  id-mgf1 (1.2.840.113549.1.1.8)
>>   002f :         SEQUENCE
>>   0031 :           OBJECT IDENTIFIER id-sha256 (2.16.840.1.101.3.4.2.1)
>>   003c :           NULL
>>   003e :     CONTEXT 2
>>   0040 :       INTEGER   0x20 (6 bits)
>> 
>>   Name = RSASSA-PSS with sha-256, oid = 1.2.840.113549.1.1.10
>> |  Length = 67
>>   0000: 3046 0609 2a86 4886 f70d 0101 0a30 39a0
>>   0010: 0f30 0d06 0960 8648 0165 0304 0201 0500
>>   0020: a11c 301a 0609 2a86 4886 f70d 0101 0830
>>   0030: 0d06 0960 8648 0165 0304 0201 0500 a203
>> |  0040: 0201 20
>> 
>> 
>> Notes
>> -----
>> 1. The maskGenAlgorithm is in fact not SHA-256
>> (2.16.840.1.101.3.4.2.1), but MGF1 (1.2.840.113549.1.1.8) based on
>> SHA-256 (2.16.840.1.101.3.4.2.1).
> 
> The id-mgf1 oid is there in the example, the tool I used didn't know
> the name for it thus it just printed out the oid. As this does not
> affect the binary object at all there is no problem in here.
> 
>> 2. Section 3 requires the use of DER:
>> The ASN.1 used here is the same ASN.1 used in the
>> AlgorithmIdentifier of PKIX (see Section 4.1.1.2 of [RFC5280]),
>> encoded using distinguished encoding rules (DER) [CCITT.X690.2002].
> 
> Yes, but RFC4055 says that:
> 
>      trailerField
> 
>         The trailerField field is an integer.  It provides
>     compatibility with IEEE Std 1363a-2004 [P1363A].  The value
>     MUST be 1, which represents the trailer field with hexadecimal
>     value 0xBC.  Other trailer fields, including the trailer field
>     composed of HashID concatenated with 0xCC that is specified in
>     IEEE Std 1363a, are not supported.  Implementations that
>     perform signature generation MUST omit the trailerField field,
>     indicating that the default trailer field value was used.
>     Implementations that perform signature validation MUST
>     recognize both a present trailerField field with value 1 and an
>     absent trailerField field.
> 
> I.e. you should recognize both formats. Yes, we could have another
> example also showing the object value to used when generating these
> and when omitting the default values (like we do have for SHA-1).
> 
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>> 
>> --------------------------------------
>> RFC7427 (draft-kivinen-ipsecme-signature-auth-07)
>> --------------------------------------
>> Title               : Signature Authentication in the Internet Key Exchange 
>> Version 2 (IKEv2)
>> Publication Date    : January 2015
>> Author(s)           : T. Kivinen, J. Snyder
>> Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
>> Source              : IP Security Maintenance and Extensions
>> Area                : Security
>> Stream              : IETF
>> Verifying Party     : IESG
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