Will DSS keys still be preferred over RSA in a few months?

Ulf Möller ulf@fitug.de
Mon, 10 Jul 2000 18:29:51 -0400


On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 10:04:08AM -0700, L. Sassaman wrote:


> Please explain this further. First of all, there is no difference between
> "RSA" and "DSA" key usage in OpenPGP.
The details of the calculation are different for DSA signature than for RSA signatures. With RSA signatures, the hash value is encoded as described in PKCS-1 section 10.1.2, "Data encoding", producing an ASN.1 value of type DigestInfo, and then padded using PKCS-1 block type 01 [RFC2313].