Re: SSH in ECC Internet Draft

[Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams%sun.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 05:24:49PM -0400, Jon Green wrote:
> This was a bit of a cop out because I was unable to find a way to
> specify in ASN.1 syntax how to not put an upper limit on a sequence. 
> 
> I've updated the specification to be: 
>    curves::= SEQUENCE SIZE (1 ... MAX) OF { curve }

Why do you need to specify a limit at all?

> Other RFC's seem to specify unbounded sequences like this, without ever
> defining MAX, but I don't like leaving MAX undefined, since it doesn't
> seem to be part of the ASN specification. Can anyone tell me if this is
> correct?

That's not good -- nowadays the IESG insists on whole ASN.1 modules and
that they compile with various available tools.

Nico
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