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Re: A note on vendor reaction speed to the e=3 problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Callas)
Sun Sep 17 11:22:28 2006
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Cc: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>,
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From: Jon Callas <jon@callas.org>
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:45:28 -0700
To: James A.Donald <jamesd@echeque.com>
> This amounts to *not* using ASN.1 - treating the ASN.1
> data as mere arbitrary padding bits, devoid of
> information content.
That is correct, it has the advantage of being merely a byte string
that denotes a given hash.
Jon
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