updates.

[crypto.git] / doc / draft-riikonen-silc-spec-06.nroff

diff --git a/doc/draft-riikonen-silc-spec-06.nroff b/doc/draft-riikonen-silc-spec-06.nroff
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--- a/doc/draft-riikonen-silc-spec-06.nroff
+++ b/doc/draft-riikonen-silc-spec-06.nroff
@@ -1242,11 +1242,12 @@ When signatures are computed in SILC the computing of the signature is
 represented as sign().  The signature computing procedure is dependent
 of the public key algorithm, and the public key or certificate encoding.
 When using SILC public key the signature is computed as described in
-previous section for RSA and DSS keys.  When using SSH2 public keys
-the signature is computed as described in [SSH-TRANS].  When using
-X.509 version 3 certificates the signature is computed as described
-in [PKCS7].  When using OpenPGP certificates the signature is computed
-as described in [PGP].
+previous paragraph for RSA and DSS keys.  If the hash function is not
+specified separately for signing process sha1 MUST be used.  When using
+SSH2 public keys the signature is computed as described in [SSH-TRANS].
+When using X.509 version 3 certificates the signature is computed as
+described in [PKCS7].  When using OpenPGP certificates the signature is
+computed as described in [PGP].
 
 
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@@ -1427,6 +1428,13 @@ o Public Data (variable length) - Includes the actual
 All fields in the public key are in MSB (most significant byte first)
 order.  All strings in the public key are UTF-8 encoded.
 
+If an external protocol need to refer to SILC Public Key by name, the
+name "silc-rsa" and "silc-dss" for SILC Public Key based on RSA algorithm
+and SILC Public Key based on DSS algorithm, respectively, are to be used.
+However, this SILC specification does not use these names directly, and 
+they are defined here for external protocols (protocols that may like 
+to use SILC Public Key).
+
 
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 3.12 SILC Version Detection