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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 | |
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# | 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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