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Re: representation of IKE DH shared secret



On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 05:05:50 +0300 you wrote
> 
> I would suggest something like this:
> 
>      g^xy is the Diffie-Hellman shared secret. When this value is
>      included in the SKEYID calculation as a input for prf it MUST
>      be prepended with zero bits up to 8-bit boundary, so that it has
>      same length in octects than group prime number p. When this value
>      is used in the hash calculation it MUST be in network byte order.
> 
> This is how all the interoperable implementations interpret the
> current document.

Sounds good. I will incorporate this and similar verbage on EC into
the document. Thanks,

  Dan.



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