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Re: Fixing the MDC language

John Kane <jkane89@softhome.net> Sat, 21 September 2002 10:49 UTC

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Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 06:41:57 -0400
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  jc> contains a SHA-1 hash of plaintext data
  jc> The plaintext of the data to be encrypted

An ambiguity quibble.  This is meant to refer to the octets of the
compressed/encoded packet as seen by the CFB envelope, as opposed
to the uncompressed/decoded data as seen by the end users?
I see the hint buried in 5.14, but pleeease make it more explicit in 5.13...

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