An octet sequence as an MPI
Niibe Yutaka
gniibe at fsij.org
Mon Oct 14 06:47:58 CEST 2019
Hello, again,
NIIBE Yutaka wrote:
> Current libgcrypt + GnuPG implementation have an issue around handling
> of an octet sequence as big-endian number in an MPI.
More specifically, for S-expression, here is an example program to show
the problem.
The point is that the reader side should know how to interpret binary in
S-expression. It is not defined by the data itself.
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