diff --git a/library/pkparse.c b/library/pkparse.c
index 2311986..724197d 100644
--- a/library/pkparse.c
+++ b/library/pkparse.c
@@ -769,6 +769,17 @@
         goto cleanup;
     p += len;
 
+    /*
+    * The RSA CRT parameters DP, DQ and QP are nominally redundant, in
+    * that they can be easily recomputed from D, P and Q. However by
+    * parsing them from the PKCS1 structure it is possible to avoid
+    * recalculating them which both reduces the overhead of loading
+    * RSA private keys into memory and also avoids side channels which
+    * can arise when computing those values, since all of D, P, and Q
+    * are secret. See https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/055 for a
+    * description of one such attack.
+    */
+
     /* Import DP */
     if( ( ret = mbedtls_asn1_get_tag( &p, end, &len,
                                       MBEDTLS_ASN1_INTEGER ) ) != 0 ||