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Re: OpenPGP vs. OpenPGP/MIME

2002-01-26 03:42:15

On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 04:20:16 +0900 (JST), Kazu Yamamoto (³Ü§) said:

I know. But who is using this feature actually?

For S/MIME it does really make sense as you don't need to pass a
lengthly message to the S/MIME application.  You can just pass the
hash value.  This is different from OpenPGP because S/MIME uses a
2-stage hashing method (in most cases).

  Werner

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