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Re: Lasr RFC dratf comments



Carl Ellison wrote:
> >Principal confusion:
> >[...]
> >
> I will make this clearer.
> 
> The private key is that which speaks and is the machinery of the principal.
> 
> The public key is 1:1 with the private key and is both a way of verifying a
> signature and a name for the public key.
> 
> The hash of the public key is a name for the public key.
> 
> So, we use either the public key or its hash as the principal -- precisely,
> as a name for the private key.
> 

My proposed text for definition 2.1 on page 7 :

Principal:
By principal we mean a signature (private) key. In other words, a entity
who is capable of "speaking" in the cyberspace by signing messages. The
public key is 1:1 with the private key and is both a way of verifying a
signature and a name for the private key. The hash of the public key is
a name for the public key. So, we use either the public key or its hash
as the principal -- precisely, as a name for the private key.


> ><reval> & <reval>, <crl> <delta-crl> <sequence> :
> >
> >The s-expression <reval> is defined two times : one in page 32
> >(<reval>:: "(" "reval" <version> <subj-hash> <valid-basic> ")";) and
> >other in 33 (<reval>:: "(" "reval" <version> <subj-hash> <one-valid>
> >")"; ).
> 
> There are two kinds of reval -- one-time and persistent.  I will look at the
> text to see how to make that clear.
> 

As we notice, there is a confusion on the text, but I must say that in
the section 8.2 we can read:

<reval-body>:: <one-valid> | <valid-basic>;
<reval>:: "(" "reval" <version> <sub-hash> <reval-body> ")";

That's the end on the confusion !!


Xavier Serret Avila

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