RSA sign/verify and hash generation functions

[Murray S. Kucherawy]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Murray S. Kucherawy
> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 12:18 PM
> To: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
> Cc: help-gnutls at gnu.org
> Subject: RE: RSA sign/verify and hash generation functions
> 
> Here's something interesting I found while trying to figure this out.
> [...]
> 
> Note that when using GnuTLS, the leading "00" octet in the modulus is
> missing.  Is this expected?  Could it explain the different signature I
> get from GnuTLS 2.11.6?

This appears also to be the case with the two primes in the private key.  The coefficient and the private exponent seem to be correct.