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Re: MessageID wording paranoia

1998-03-25 15:09:58
At 03:45 PM 3/25/98 +0100, Thomas Roessler wrote:

   As a solution, I'd suggest to mandate the use of a certain
   hash (sha1?) of the armored text, i.e., the _encrypted_
   message. (Most probably it's meant that way, but let's
   make the text unambiguous.)
   
An excellent point -- there needs to be clarification there. I've added
text that says, "...it MUST be computed from the finished (encrypted,
signed, etc.) message in a deterministic fashion..."

How's that?

        Jon



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