multiple signers

[Werner Koch]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 10:40:01 +0100, Timo Schulz said:

> Yes, I thought the same. When the file is very large, it takes a long
> time to verify two or more signatures. What about parallel hashing.

Even worse, you can't do this when the data comes from a pipe.  
We already use several hash contexts to work around PGP bugs.  I am
not in favor of setting up even more.  If the message is correctly
encoded, we can hash the data using more than one algorithms, it is
just a matter of enabling the algorithms for the hash context and
doing a md_copy right before hashing the signature specific part. 

> On the other hand, this means we need to change the code in lots of
> files and this is no solution for the stable branch.

Right.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner