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Re: "KeyNote" -- how to describe cryptographic keys.



At 03:23 PM 4/5/97 EST, Ron Rivest wrote:
>An example of a KeyNote public signature verification key is:
>
>	(public-key (object-hash (md5 object)) 
>	            (object-hash (rsa signature (const &03)(const &0435))))

Ron, 

	wouldn't it be even clearer to use:

	(public-key (let object-hash (md5 object)) 
	            (equal object-hash (rsa signature (const &03)(const &0435))))

 ?

 - Carl


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