A note on vendor reaction speed to the e=3 problem

James A. Donald jamesd at echeque.com
Sat Sep 16 22:19:09 EDT 2006


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Whyte, William wrote:
 > Anyway, the attack applies even if you throw away the
 > ASN.1 data.

If you ignore the ASN.1 data you expect the hash to be
in a fixed byte position, so the attack does not apply.

     --digsig
          James A. Donald
      6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG
      qF2+GCfNPchHe4vzSkkYoOEjOI5i/kZtLIlyTUbX
      45tXJAuT/Tj9w0qpg0VFij8GrtY2JXG05fj6YE6M2

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