User's Guide to Cryptography and Standards:
Errata

Alexander W. Dent and Chris J. Mitchell

1st March 2009 (version 0.37)

Introduction

Errata

Chapter 1

• Page 5, Section 1.3, definition of S, line 5. Change `where the public key' to `where the private key'. [Kevin Eagles, 14/3/05].

Chapter 2

• Page 11, penultimate line. Change `the the ISO' to `the ISO'. [Kevin Eagles, 20/3/05].

Chapter 4

• Page 50, paragraph starting `These attacks', line 1. Change the text to `The differential and linear cryptanalysis attacks were first published in the early 1990s, and caused ...'. [Soichi Furuya, 17/12/04].
• Page 50, Equation (4.3). Change to
  

  X : = dK1(eK2(dK3(Y)))

  [Soichi Furuya, 17/12/04].
• Page 53, Section 4.2.5, last line. Change 'ciphers' to 'cipher'. [Mark Milton, 23/2/09].
• Page 65, Notes on Section 4.4.1, line 5. `Addleman' should be 'Adleman'. [CJM, 6/11/04].
• Page 65, Notes on Section 4.4.2, line 6. Delete 'the' before 'both'. [CJM, 6/11/04].

Chapter 5

• Page 75, Figures 5.3 and 5.4. A down arrow is missing from both figures (connecting the central Å to the e_K box below in Figure 5.3, and connecting the rightmost d_K box to the Å beneath in Figure 5.4). [Soichi Furuya, 6/1/05].
• Page 78, Equation (5.12). X_q should be X_i, i.e. the equation should read P_i=C_iÅ(e_K(X_i)|_j). [Soichi Furuya, 6/1/05].
• Page 78, Equation (5.14). X_i should be X_q, i.e. the equation should read P_q=C_qÅ(e_K(X_q)|_t). [CJM, 9/1/05].

Chapter 6

• Page 93, paragraph 3, line 6. Change `then' to `than'. [Soichi Furuya, 6/1/05].
• Page 97, Section 6.2, paragraph 2, line 2. Change `FIBS' to `FIPS'. [Soichi Furuya, 6/1/05].
• Page 100, Figure 6.2. Change the left input to the dotted box from H_i to H_i-1. [Soichi Furuya, 6/1/05].
• Page 103, Figure 6.3. The outputs of the leftmost `Split' box (near the top of the figure) should be H<sub>i-1</sub><sup>L</sup> and H<sub>i-1</sub><sup>R</sup> instead of H<sub>i</sub><sup>L</sup> and H<sub>i</sub><sup>R</sup> respectively. [Soichi Furuya, 6/1/05].
• Page 104, line 7. Change `Pub' to `Pub.'. [Soichi Furuya, 6/1/05].
• Page 104, lines 14/15. The name `Rijmen' should not be hyphenated `Ri-jmen'. [Vincent Rijmen, 8/2/05].
• Page 106, Notes on Section 6.1, line 7. Change `was first' to `were first'. [CJM, 6/11/04].
• Page 106, Notes on Section 6.1, para. 3, line 1. Change `significantly' to `significant'. [CJM, 6/11/04].

Chapter 7

• Page 123, Equation 7.6. Change `e<sub>K"</sub>[e<sub>K</sub>[(D<sub>1</sub>)]' to `e_K"(e_K(D₁))', i.e. the equation should read H₁=e_K"(e_K(D₁)). [Soichi Furuya, 6/1/05].
• Page 128, line -18. Change `algorithms 1 and 3 should be used' to `algorithms 1 and 3 are in most cases to be preferred to algorithm 2'. [Vincent Rijmen, 8/2/05].
• Page 130, line -9. Change `Rackhoff' to `Rackoff'. [AWD, 10/7/05].

Chapter 8

• Page 146, paragraph starting `The idea', line 7. Change `signing key e' to `signing key d'. [Anonymous, 16/3/05].
• Page 150, Section 8.6, line 8. Change `use' to `used'. [Vincent Rijmen, 8/2/05].

Chapter 10

• Page 206, last paragraph, line 5. Change `the previous issue' to `one of the previous issues'. [Vincent Rijmen, 8/2/05].

Chapter 11

• Page 226, line 14. Change `TSRM' to `TRSM'. [Soichi Furuya, 25/2/05].
• Page 229, Ref. [6]. Change `Withdrawl' to `Withdrawal'. [CJM, 6/11/04].
• Page 230, Ref. [11]. Change `Techniques for' to `Techniques using'. [CJM, 8/11/04].

Chapter 16

• Page 342, line 4. Change `be be' to `be'. [Renato Menicocci, 25/9/06].
• Page 348, Notes on Section 16.2, paragraph starting 'It was thought', lines 2-4. Change `This advice ... other properties' to `This advice has now largely been superseded, as it seems that suitably large randomly generated prime numbers will satisfy these conditions with overwhelming probability'. [AWD, 16/12/04].

Appendix A

• Page 365, Table A.7, 11568-4 title. Change `Techniques for' to `Techniques using'. [CJM, 11/11/04].