nits in sec-fips

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 [SP.800-56Cr2] section 4 "One-Step Key Derivation" requires a `counter` which begins at the 4-byte value 0x00000001. However, the counter is allowed to be omitted when the hash function is executed only once, as specified on page 159 of the FIPS 140-3 Implementation Guidance [FIPS-140-3-IG].
 
-The HKDF-SHA2 options can be certified under SP.800-56Cr2 One-Step Key Derivation Option 2: `H(x) = HMAC-hash(salt, x)` where `salt` is the empty (0 octet) string, which will internally be mapped to the zero vector `0x00..00` of the correct input size for the underlying hash function in order to satisfy the requirement in [SP.800-56Cr2] that "nn the absence of an agreed-upon alternative – the default_salt shall be an all-zero byte string whose bit length equals that specified as the bit length of an input block for the hash function, hash". Note that since the desired shared secret key output length of 256 bits for all security levels aligns with the block size of SHA256, we do not need to use the HKDF-Extract step specified in [RFC5869], which further simplifies FIPS certification by allowing us to use the One-Step KDF rather than the Two-Step KDF from [SP.800-56Cr2].
+The HKDF-SHA2 options can be certified under [SP.800-56Cr2] One-Step Key Derivation Option 2: `H(x) = HMAC-hash(salt, x)` where `salt` is the empty (0 octet) string, which will internally be mapped to the zero vector `0x00..00` of the correct input size for the underlying hash function in order to satisfy the requirement in [SP.800-56Cr2] that "in the absence of an agreed-upon alternative – the default_salt shall be an all-zero byte string whose bit length equals that specified as the bit length of an input block for the hash function, hash". Note that since the desired shared secret key output length of 256 bits for all security levels aligns with the block size of SHA256, we do not need to use the HKDF-Extract step specified in [RFC5869], which further simplifies FIPS certification by allowing us to use the One-Step KDF rather than the Two-Step KDF from [SP.800-56Cr2].
 
 The SHA3 options can be certified under [SP.800-56Cr2] One-Step Key Derivation Option 1: `H(x) = hash(x)`.