RFC Errata
RFC 6090, "Fundamental Elliptic Curve Cryptography Algorithms", February 2011
Source of RFC: IETF - NON WORKING GROUPArea Assignment: sec
Errata ID: 2774
Status: Held for Document Update
Type: Editorial
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Annie Yousar
Date Reported: 2011-04-11
Held for Document Update by: Sean Turner
Section 2.2 says:
By convention, a^0 is equal to the identity element for any a in G.
It should say:
By convention, a^0 is equal to the identity element and a^1 is equal to a itself for any a in G.
Notes:
Without this convention the explanation on the next page: "... for any integers X and Y: a^(X+Y) = (a^X)*(a^Y) ..." would be incomplete, as being undefined for the integers X=1 and/or Y=1.