How about: OLD: The Pad Length field need not exceed 4 octets. However, RFC 4303 and this specification do not prohibit using greater pad lengths.
NEW: The length of the Padding field need not exceed 4 octets. However, neither RFC 4303 nor this specification require using the minimal padding length. Yoav > On Jun 14, 2015, at 10:37 AM, Yaron Sheffer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Quick nit: the sentence "The Pad Length field need not exceed 4 octets" is a > bit confusing, because the Pad Length field is obviously a constant 2 octets. > I would suggest "The Padding field's length (and the value of the Pad Length > field) need not exceed 4 octets." > > Thanks, > Yaron > > On 06/14/2015 09:46 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts >> directories. >> This draft is a work item of the IP Security Maintenance and Extensions >> Working Group of the IETF. >> >> Title : ChaCha20, Poly1305 and their use in IKE & IPsec >> Author : Yoav Nir >> Filename : draft-ietf-ipsecme-chacha20-poly1305-09.txt >> Pages : 12 >> Date : 2015-06-13 >> >> Abstract: >> This document describes the use of the ChaCha20 stream cipher along >> with the Poly1305 authenticator, combined into an AEAD algorithm for >> the Internet Key Exchange protocol (IKEv2) and for IPsec. >> >> >> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: >> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ipsecme-chacha20-poly1305/ >> >> There's also a htmlized version available at: >> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ipsecme-chacha20-poly1305-09 >> >> A diff from the previous version is available at: >> https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-ipsecme-chacha20-poly1305-09 >> >> >> Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission >> until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. >> >> Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: >> ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> IPsec mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipsec >> > > _______________________________________________ > IPsec mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipsec _______________________________________________ IPsec mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipsec
