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Re: Names of algorithms

To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Names of algorithms
From: Carl Ellison <cme@cybercash.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 02:39:36 -0500
Cc: rivest@theory.lcs.mit.edu (Ron Rivest), spki@c2.net, blampson@microsoft.com, burt@rsa.com
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At 10:59 PM 4/1/97 -0800, Bill Frantz wrote:
>I assume by your description that the specification of the hash algorithm
>implies what message padding algorithm you are using?

No, he had a specific parameter for that.  In his example, it was (pkcs1).
Burt had suggested a parameter for output encoding also, but Ron dropped that.
I haven't heard from Burt on the subject.

 - Carl


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Names of algorithms

From: rivest@theory.lcs.mit.edu (Ron Rivest)

Re: Names of algorithms

From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>

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