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Re: PGP Message Exchange Formats Internet Draft

1997-08-11 07:52:18
On Mon, 11 Aug 1997 root(_at_)mars(_dot_)ceddec(_dot_)com wrote:

Speaking of which, since DSA has only 160 bytes, and does not use the ASN1

OOPS----------------------------------------bits------------------------DER?

prefix string that the RSA signatures use, are these going to be dropped?

If/when you allow El Gamal signatures, will they be the lower 20 bytes
with that PKCS padding and will they use the ASN1 strings, and what are
they for RIPE-MD-160 and SHA1 - I think they are blank in the source.

Ah, those do use the PKCS padding and the DER prefixes.

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