DSA2

John W. Moore III johnmoore3rd at joimail.com
Fri Sep 22 05:15:25 CEST 2006


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Alphax wrote:

> Note that it's also not immediately obvious what the format of the
> signature packet used in a clearsigned message is... I haven't looked at
> the "working draft" of the RFC but hopefully it's a lot clearer than the
> published version.

If clarity is your goal; 2440bis isn't going to provide it.  DSA2 is
covered in the current Revision, but a 'Firewall Hash' is *not* present
within or available for DSA Keys.  The DSA2 Hash(s) are truncated
versions of existing Hash algorithms.  They 'work' the same as existing
DSA Hash functions.

JOHN ;)
Timestamp: Thursday 21 Sep 2006, 23:14  --400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
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