[cabfpub] Ballot [93] - Reasons for Revocation (BR issues 6, 8, 10, 21)

[Rob Stradling]

On 26/10/12 22:15, Rick Andrews wrote:
> I just realized that Robin's revision seems incorrect. Yngve intended that 3 would be treated as a valid exponent (I believe that's what he intended), but 3 is not in the range below.

Rick, I don't see how "MUST be an odd number equal to 3 or more" could 
means that 3 is disallowed!

The "SHOULD be in the range between..." clause means that 3 is 
discouraged, but not prohibited.

> -Rick
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: public-bounces at cabforum.org [mailto:public-bounces at cabforum.org]
>> On Behalf Of Robin Alden
>> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 3:09 AM
>> To: 'Yngve N. Pettersen (Developer Opera Software ASA)'; 'CABFMAN';
>> 'Ben Wilson'
>> Cc: public at cabforum.org
>> Subject: Re: [cabfpub] Ballot [93] - Reasons for Revocation (BR issues
>> 6, 8, 10, 21)
>>
>> Comodo votes 'yes' based on Yngve's clarification that the effective
>> date would be "Immediate" and that for the RSA public exponent there
>> was a typo and that part of the motion should read, "The value of the
>> public exponent MUST be an odd number equal to 3 or more, it SHOULD be
>> in the range between
>> 65,537 (= (2^16)+1) and (2^256)-1."
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Rob Stradling
Senior Research & Development Scientist
COMODO - Creating Trust Online