Keypair generation, storage

[Moritz Schulte]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 02:22:08PM +0100, Pierre Doucy wrote:

> Then I realised that all the other algorithms constructed their
> private keys as an array containing all the public parameters, then
> the private parameters.  Can anyone explain me the rationale for
> this ?

Simple: in many situations, the public key is seen as a subset of the
secret key; the public key is the secret key, with the secret elements
removed.

> gpg: Ohhhh jeeee: can't encode a 160 bit MD into a 255 bits frame
[...]
> but I really don't understand what's going on here. Any idea ?

encode_md_value() contains a special case for DSA; I guess, you would
need something similar for your new algorithm.

Moritz.
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