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Re: V3 secret keys

Ian G <iang@systemics.com> Wed, 08 February 2006 10:36 UTC

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Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 11:15:58 +0100
From: Ian G <iang@systemics.com>
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To: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: V3 secret keys
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Peter Gutmann wrote:
> 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).


That I agree with.  It's how it's done, anyway,
as evidenced from the several references to "and
I went back into the old code..."

iang

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