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Re: RSA 1024 in certificate

jimmy
Mon, 06 Feb 2006 09:20:45 -0800

majorsoul (sent by Nabble.com) wrote:
why does the DER encoding of public key modulus begins with
02 81 81 00 and not with 02 81 80 ??

ASN.1 specifies integers cannot be negative. so the leading zero makes it positive.


-jb
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