Re: V3 secret keys

Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk> Fri, 17 February 2006 15:37 UTC

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From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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Ben Laurie wrote:
>> Could you possibly show a few lines of your code, that does this step?
>> It's simply impossible for your code to be working as I have described
>> above, and to interoperate with existing V3 keys.  Either I misunderstood
>> your claim about the need for an all-zero IV, or you have misunderstood
>> what your own code is doing.
> 
> The code is publicly available: http://openpgpsdk.nominet.org.uk/.

This should have been http://openpgp.nominet.org.uk/, sorry.

Cheers,

Ben.

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