> > Why not? It's exactly the same situation as putting it at the beginning > of the document itself, we're just moving it a few bytes earlier in > the message. Oh, you mean the key. The key has to go absolutely first in the decryption/encryption, otherwise you don't have an IV and an IV is a requirement for a feedback cipher.
> > Thats not necessary, you can just throw random bytes in the message's > > trailing field. > > Ah, but for CHKs the routing key is a function of the storables, and > we want to do it in such a way as to encourage CHK collisions. True. But you can use all zeros too if you want. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20010504/0e4dd0d3/attachment.pgp>
