Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker schrieb:
Variants I've heard of are:
[...]
- Another option that I've seen is to use a counter and encrypt it with
a block chipher using a fixed key. This guarantees uniqueness (because
encryption is bijective) while concealing the counter and using less
bytes than
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:16:21 -0700, Eric Rescorla
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
ekr> Does anyone know the details of the certificate generation
ekr> algorithms used by various CAs?
Variants I've heard of are:
- A simple counter starting at 0 (well, actually, I know t
Eric Rescorla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>In particular, Verisign's is very long and I seem to remember someone telling
>me it was a hach but I don't recall the details...
It's just a SHA-1 hash. Many CAs use this to make traffic analysis of how
many (or few) certificates they're issuing imposs
Does anyone know the details of the certificate generation algorithms
used by various CAs?
In particular, Verisign's is very long and I seem to remember someone telling
me it was a hach but I don't recall the details...
Thanks,
-Ekr
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