On Tuesday 31 July 2001 12:24 pm, you wrote:
I understand that, but I am running a text file thru SHA-1, signing the
SHA-1, and place the signature in the file, and then sending the file to
another process on another machine. This other process will then need to
pull the signature out of the file. If I know what the max size of the
signature is, I can pad it and then place the signature in the file and send
it so that the recieving application can always expect the same size
signature.
> "Mark W. Webb" wrote:
> > I have a 1024 bit DSA key that I am using to sign a SHA-1 hash. I need
> > to know what the maximum size of that signature that is generated.
>
> DSA_size(dsa_key) will give you this. However the actual signature may
> be smaller.
>
> Steve.
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