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adding noise blob to data before signing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugen Leitl)
Sat Aug 10 12:01:39 2002
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 12:15:43 +0200 (CEST)
From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
To: Cryptography List <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
1) What's the name of the technique of salting/padding an small integer
I'm signing with random data?
2) If I'm signing above short (~1 kBit) sequences, can I sign them
directly, or am I supposed to hash them first? (i.e. does a presence
of an essentially fixed field weaken the signature)
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