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Re: How to Calculate Signatures?

2005-04-03 14:25:05

Ben Laurie wrote:

Hal Finney wrote:

On this basis, if we did want to support the larger SHA hashes, we should
truncate them and keep the left 160 bits for use with existing DSA keys.


Yes, please.


I'm curious on this point.  Other than the fact that
"it's broken" why is it that you see it important to
repair the DSA in OpenPGP?

iang

PS: As a point of notation for the RFC, isn't it DSS?
Or are we saying that DSA is implemented because it
is not quite DSS?
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