Nov. 17, 2015
9:47 p.m.
Greetings. This might sound really weenie, but it turns out to be important in the long run. I propose that from now on, we alway publish our documents as "RSSAC 0xx version 1". It is impossible to predict when will or will not need a version 2 (and beyond). If someone says "see RSSAC 0xx", that should always mean "the highest version number of 0xx", not "exactly the one numbered 0xx". The issues in 002 version 2 are not that big but NIST (the US government standards department that creates cryptographic standards) has had *huge* headaches when they have published revisions because Google still refers to the base version, not the most recent one. --Paul Hoffman