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revision 1.67 by tjl, Sat May 17 21:00:38 2003 UTC revision 1.68 by tjl, Sat May 17 21:21:57 2003 UTC
# Line 313  Deterministic: a Full Digital Signature Line 313  Deterministic: a Full Digital Signature
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314          and has the octuplet??          and has the octuplet??
315    
316    - AAAGH We can't use 80-bit hashes inside the tree, and it's
317      questionable whether we can even use 160-bit!
318      Reason: if you sign a lot of docs, chances are
319      you get a common birthday: two instances
320      of the same key used at two different branches.
321    
322      Especially since we use N primitive signatures for each sig.
323    
324      This needs to be reasoned out carefully.
325    
326  Ordered  Ordered
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