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Lewis McCarthy (lmccarth@cs.umass.edu)
Mon, 06 Apr 1998 12:54:32 -0400
Werner Koch writes:
> No. PGP 5 does not use ElGamal for signatures, but DSA and the hash is
> simply used without any padding as input for DSA.
OK, in that case I don't understand what you wrote previously:
> I'm using ElGamal signatures and wondering what are the advantages of
> packing the Hash into a structure of FF-padding, an ASN-OID and the Hash
> (this is the way PGP does it).
What did you mean by "this is the way PGP does it", if not block formatting
for ElGamal signatures. (You didn't mention any other signature scheme in
your previous message.)
-Lewis
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:16:52 ADT