Re: Implementation question: validating left two of signatures

2011-08-12 Thread David Shaw
On Aug 12, 2011, at 3:27 PM, brian m. carlson wrote: > I have a quality-of-implementation question (more in general than > specifically about GnuPG). I am writing an implementation of OpenPGP > that verifies signatures, among other things. > > Signatures contain the left two bytes of the hash as

Implementation question: validating left two of signatures

2011-08-12 Thread brian m. carlson
I have a quality-of-implementation question (more in general than specifically about GnuPG). I am writing an implementation of OpenPGP that verifies signatures, among other things. Signatures contain the left two bytes of the hash as a quick check. I've noticed that a small number of signatures a