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Re: V3 secret keys

pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) Tue, 07 February 2006 23:00 UTC

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To: ben@algroup.co.uk, iang@systemics.com
Subject: Re: V3 secret keys
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Ian G <iang@systemics.com> writes:
>Ben Laurie wrote:
>> Obviously the I-D should be updated to reflect this (and clearly no-one
>> has ever implemented v3 keys from it).
>(I'm not qualified to rewrite the draft on that issue.)

Why not just include the pseudocode (or more usefully straight C code) for
the operation?  That's the ultimate definitive description, any programmer
can understand it, and you don't run into the problems you do with the
english description.

(Even if an implementer doesn't understand it, they can always just cut &
paste the code).

Peter.

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