"AG" == Anthony E Greene <agreene(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com>
wrote the following on Thu, 16 Oct 1997 03:12:47 +0200
>> Because PGP 5.0 can't seem report whether or not it is using the
>> MD5 or SHA1 hash, my PGP/MIME program can't provide that
>> information in the Content-Type header without maintaining a
>> database of keys or something awkward like that.
AG> What about the hash lengths?
Hmm, I noticed that md5 signatures always seemed to be longer.
Is this reliable? Perhaps I could just check the PGP signature output
file and if it is longer than xx bytes I could call it MD5?
--
Ben Escoto
PGP/MIME mail welcome - finger bescoto(_at_)leland(_dot_)stanford(_dot_)edu for
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pgpZgQLQKkgDQ.pgp
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