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RE: IKE signature payload
Yes, however IKE uses PKCS#1 style padding.
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Greg Carter, Entrust Technologies
greg.carter@entrust.com
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> From: Dave Clark[SMTP:dac@lucent.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 1998 9:40 AM
> To: ipsec@tis.com
> Subject: IKE signature payload
>
> Hello;
>
> The cryptographic library I'm using for IKE has an RSA_Sign routine
> which returns a 'sign length' indicating the number of significant
> bits in the created signature. This length may not be a multiple of 8.
> The corresponding RSA_Verify routine needs to know this length. I can't
> see how to encode the signature length in bits into the Signature payload
> ... should my RSA implementation be handling the padding of the signature
> to the byte boundary, for signature creation and verification? Thanks in
> advance.
>
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> Dave Clark
> Secure Technologies
> Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs
> dac@lucent.com
>