Re: key usage - key encipherment or data encipherment

[pgut001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Peter Gutmann)]

Russ Housley <housley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>This would be quite a change from the current meaning of the bits, not a
>clarification.

Well, it would change the current text describing the bits, but not the way
the bits are being used in practice.  In other words the changed text would
then match the way the bits are actually being used.  It'd resolve the
ambiguity and fix the current problem in a single step.

Peter.