Thanks, Tero. 

Fixed in -07

Yoav

> On May 4, 2015, at 6:19 PM, Tero Kivinen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I have now read the latest draft-ietf-ipsecme-chacha20-poly1305-06 and
> it seems to be ok. I have few nits that could be fixed, and and one
> real mistake:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> In appendix B you say:
> 
>         The ciphertext is also 16 octets long, so the construction
>   has no padding at all.
> 
> This is not true. The ciphertext was 13 bytes long (as can be seen
> from the length), and there was 3 bytes of padding.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Nits:
> 
> In section 2:
> 
>   The same key and nonce, along with a block counter of zero are passed
>   to the ChaCha20 block function, and the top 256 bits of the result
>   are used as the Poly1305 key.  The nonce passed to the block function
>   here is the same nonce that is used in ChaCha20, including the 32-bit
>   Salt, and the key passed is the same as the encryption key.
> 
> I think it is bit useless to first say that "The same key and nonce,
> ..." and then define that by the way the nonce is same and the key is
> same ...
> 
> I would remove the second sentence, I think it is enough to say that
> the same key and nonce are passed to block function.
> 
> --
> 
> In the draft you use "little-endian integer" and "network order
> integer". I do not know what the order of the network is (most likely
> it is messed up), but I assume you mean "integer in network byte
> order" or something like that. You might want to talk about "byte
> orders" in both cases.
> 
> Btw, I really hate to have system where we need to mix network byte
> order and little-endia byte order stuff, but I think that is what cfrg
> decided so better stick with that.
> 
> --
> 
> In section 2.1 you should expand ESN.
> 
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