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Regarding ... #6
A small note to cover the bases:
> From: Ran Atkinson <rja@cisco.com>
> 6) Please also see ...
> the note from Ron Rivest with subject
> "Photuris terminology" dated 12 Oct 1995 19:54:57
>
Which read (excerpted):
# *****************************************************************
# *** There is nothing in this notion of "signature" that means ***
# *** that the message can not be derived from the signature. ***
# *****************************************************************
# Indeed, I believe that the CCITT standards distinguish explicitly between
# "signature schemes with message recovery" and "signature schemes without
# message recovery".
# ...
# I would suggest adding language of the following form somewhere (such as
# on the top of page 23):
#
# The Signature-Choice method must specify a signature method that
# does not have "message recovery": it should not be feasible to
# compute the message from the signature.
# ...
The language appeared in draft -05 on Oct 14! Cannot get much faster
than that!
Also, in response to other messages, the use of the term Signature was
changed to Verification, of which a "signature" is only one example....
Bill.Simpson@um.cc.umich.edu
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