Me again..

[ Sorry if this post is more about cryptography in general than about
cryptoPP ; just let me know if I'm really out of the scope of this
mailing-list. ]

I would like to perform a selective signature (based on RSA) on a file made
of distinct blocks. The aim would be to sign some blocks, but not all of
them. 
My knowledge of signature techniques being quiet limited, I'm looking for
methods that would allow me to do so. I'm not aware of any algorithm doing
so. If I'm not wrong, the three RSA signature schemes defined in PKCS #1
v2.0 only work on single blocks.

Among the things I thought of :
- putting the selected blocks together as a simple file and signing the
result : this is not really satifying since the order of the blocks should
not matter
- signing each block separately, and XOR-ing each of the signatures I get.

I would be really grateful for any opinions about those ideas, or any better
one.

Regards,

-- 
C�dric Mallet 

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