[BUG] DSA failure in LargePositiveInteger in #new: <primitive: 71>

Bob Arning arning at charm.net
Tue May 30 18:20:16 UTC 2000


On Tue, 30 May 2000 19:48:22 +0200 Stephan Rudlof <sr at evolgo.de> wrote:
>So I would dig deeper first into
>DigitalSignatureAlgorithm>>remainder:mod: to find the error.
>
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>Stephan
>
>P.S.: I don't have the DSA module ready to run here, but I'm very
>interested in every possible bug of the LargeIntegersPlugin: So I've
>taken a look into it and explained my assumptions (which could be
>wrong...).

DSA is explicitly creating "short" LargeIntegers as well as not-exactly-normalized LargeIntegers with leading zeros. I don't know just how critical these techniques are for correctness or speed.

Cheers,
Bob





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