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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