ecash signature scheme?
R. A. Hettinga
rah at shipwright.com
Mon Apr 14 23:43:08 EDT 2003
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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 22:45:13 -0400
From: John Kane <jkane89 at softhome.net>
To: Robert Hettinga <rah at shipwright.com>
Subject: ecash signature scheme?
recently asked on sci.crypt:
> What kind of signature scheme is this? The RSA envelope is filled with
> 00 || MD5-Hash(message) || 00 ... 00
> (padded on the right with 00s up to the RSA modulus length).
David Wagner wrote:
dw> I seem to remember that an early version of Digicash's
dw> ecash protocol may have used this scheme
Any recollection of whether this might be on the mark?
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=b7fkrv$ofg$1@agate.berkeley.edu
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=5a9000c2.0304140745.55ea14e2@posting.google.com
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John Kane
Boston, MA (eastern US)
IETF-OpenPGP working group
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