RE: Section 4.1 clarifications

[Paul Koning <ni1d@arrl.net>]

>>>>> "Julian" == Julian Satran <Julian_Satran@il.ibm.com> writes:

 Julian> Michael, The integer representation was discussed a long time
 Julian> ago on the list and it was decided that decimal should be
 Julian> allowed as it might be copied from some human readable
 Julian> tables. I would hate to make this type of changes this late.

Was it ever the intent that things like Diffie-Hellman parameters
could be expressed in decimal?  That seems like a VERY VERY bad idea;
where is someone going to find a function that converts a decimal
string to a bignum?

Decimal is fine for any parameter that's a "normal size" integer,
i.e., a 32 bit or even -- probably -- a 64 bit integer.  But bignums
should only ever be expressed in hex or base64.

       paul