Version hashed twice?
Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk> Sat, 02 April 2005 14:25 UTC
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In a v4 signature packet, the packet version number is hashed twice, once in the hash of the packet data, and again in the trailer. Why? Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff
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