Jim Schaad <[email protected]> wrote: > Using a message recovery signature algorithm, which is > currently discouraged for countersignatures for a number of reasons, needs > to steal bytes from the right end of the to-be-signed bytes because that is > where the message content is.
I feel that some words might be missing from this "sentence"?
I also don't know what a message recovery signature algorithm is, but I'll
ask google.
> Stealing bytes in the event of a
> countersignature does not make a great deal of sense, but the new proposed
> structure no longer places the "message content bytes" at the end of the
> message as the "other binary values" are currently appended after the
> message content.
> There currently are not any issues raised by this, but it does raise some
> interesting questions for a future new base COSE message type. I don't
know
> if this should be changed, it should be noted, or it should be ignored.
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Michael Richardson <[email protected]> . o O ( IPv6 IøT consulting )
Sandelman Software Works Inc, Ottawa and Worldwide
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