[Babel-users] Babel authentication I-D version 01

Denis Ovsienko infrastation at yandex.ru
Wed Feb 6 13:37:26 UTC 2013


>  3.  Remove all duplicate keys from the copy.
>
> It is essential that you explain how duplicates are removed, since it changes
> the list of ESAs!  Consider the following case: K1,K2,K3,K1.  If you remove the
> first occurrence of K1, then K2 and K3 will be selected (assuming the value of
> MaxDigests is 2), otherwise K1 and K2.

When I was refining that paragraph, I discovered another issue: steps 3 (remove all duplicate keys) and 4 (populate the output list of ESAs) should go in the opposite order, otherwise the output is messed up. The next revision will have it fixed.

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    Denis Ovsienko



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