Merge pull request bitcoin#426 from chjj/bip151-aadseq

BIP151: Clarifications on sequence numbers.

Author: luke-jr

bip-0151.mediawiki

@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ Processing the message before the authentication succeeds must not be done.
 
 The 4byte sha256 checksum is no longer required because the AEAD.
 
-Both peers need to track the message number (int64) of sent messages to the remote peer for building a symmetric cipher IV. Padding might be required (96bit IVs).
+Both peers need to track the message sequence number (uint32) of sent messages to the remote peer for building a 64 bit symmetric cipher IV. Sequence numbers are allowed to overflow to zero after 4294967295 (2^32-1).
 
 The encrypted payload will result decrypted in one or many unencrypted messages:
 
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ The Re-Keying must be done after every 1GB of data sent or received (recommended
 
 === Risks ===
 
-The encryption does not include an identity authentication scheme. This BIP does not cover a proposal to avoid MITM attacks during the encryption initialization. 
+The encryption does not include an identity authentication scheme. This BIP does not cover a proposal to avoid MITM attacks during the encryption initialization.
 
 Identity authentication will be covered in another BIP and will presume communication encryption after this BIP.