On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 16:34 +1000, Manger, James H wrote:
> Ludwig,
> 
> > In section B.3 the length of the AAD is 848 bits, but the AAL value is
> > encoded to 0x380 (which is 896), or have I missed something?
> 
> It is encoded as [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 80] — an array of 8 bytes shows as 
> decimal numbers.
> 3 * 256 + 80 = 848
> The digits '80' are decimal, not hex.
> 
> Showing binary quantities as arrays of decimal numbers is awful. But I guess 
> the editors like it because it is JSON :(
> 
> --
> James Manger

In that case there is an inconsistency with 

draft-ietf-jose-json-web-algorithms-10

section C.1 and C.2

Where in both cases A is 42 bytes long (= 336 bits) and the AL is given
as [...,01, 50] = 1*256+50 = 306

Regards,

Ludwig Seitz

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