RFC Errata
RFC 4634, "US Secure Hash Algorithms (SHA and HMAC-SHA)", July 2006
Note: This RFC has been obsoleted by RFC 6234
Source of RFC: IETF - NON WORKING GROUPArea Assignment: sec
Errata ID: 2433
Status: Held for Document Update
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Alfred Hoenes
Date Reported: 2006-08-13
Held for Document Update by: Sean Turner
Date Held: 2010-08-06
Section 8.2.3 says:
The comment text, near the top of page 46, says: * Caveats: * SHA-384 and SHA-512 are designed to work with messages less * than 2^128 bits long. This implementation uses * SHA384/512Input() to hash the bits that are a multiple of the * size of an 8-bit character, and then uses SHA384/256FinalBits() * to hash the final few bits of the input. It should better say -- cf. item (6) and (13) above: * Caveats: * SHA-384 and SHA-512 are designed to work with messages less * than 2^128 bits long. This implementation uses SHA384/512Input() * to hash the bits that are a multiple of the size of an 8-bit |* character, and optionally then uses SHA384/256FinalBits() * to hash the final few bits of the input.