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Re: A note on vendor reaction speed to the e=3 problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Sun Sep 17 11:25:04 2006
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Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:19:09 +1000
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
To: "Whyte, William" <WWhyte@ntru.com>
Cc: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>,
cryptography@metzdowd.com
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Whyte, William wrote:
> Anyway, the attack applies even if you throw away the
> ASN.1 data.
If you ignore the ASN.1 data you expect the hash to be
in a fixed byte position, so the attack does not apply.
--digsig
James A. Donald
6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG
qF2+GCfNPchHe4vzSkkYoOEjOI5i/kZtLIlyTUbX
45tXJAuT/Tj9w0qpg0VFij8GrtY2JXG05fj6YE6M2
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