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Re: public key algorithm naming
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At 10:49 AM 4/8/98 -0400, Matt Fredette wrote:
>So, if the DSA <sig-val> is an S-expression, then, that S-expression ought
>to be typed, in the spirit of language. Something like:
>
>(dsa-sig (r |123abc==|) (s |456def==|))
>
>But if we're doing things that way for DSA, how about always making
><sig-val> a typed S-expression? For RSA, I'm thinking:
>
>(rsa-sig |789f0e==|)
>
>These types, "dsa-sig" and "rsa-sig" don't have to repeat any of the
>encoding or hash names, since we've already seen that they are elsewhere.
>They really just serve to type the values of a signature in that
cryptosystem,
>which is (strongly in RSA, not-so-strongly in DSA) independent of the
>encoding and hash used.
I'll have to remain ambivalent on this suggestion until I see what it does
to the code. Does any other implementor have an opinion on this?
- Carl
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