On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 10:33:12AM +0100, Adam Langley wrote:
> On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 02:19:48AM -0400, Tavin Cole wrote:
> > The Public-key is a hex-encoded DSA public key as in 0.3, but
> > the DSA group is now appended after a comma, always, so you
> > get Public-key=y,p,q,g.  If that's a problem I 
> > can go back to using the optional Group field.
> 
> Why? Does Scott think that reusing the groups is a risk? It's
> certainly possible to generate groups for every message (last I heard
> fred took several minutes to do this, wrose can do it in a couple of
> seconds thou) but it's a bit of a waste of time&space unless needed.

I don't have a great reason, except it made my coding slightly
easier :).  I would expect the same default groups would continue to
be used, but this _would_ allow us to change the default groups later
without invalidating all the data on the network.

> Also, will this hit the max header length? (what is it?):

1024 I think.

> Storable.Public-key=15102b30436e41a6c9b52d6146d2f3862a84e7b51e28db943d125dbd180ac0088e91167fb04bcbd73ac9cac18d77587718000838ee1a3ffdd7fe1dccb9d2d3159297fae239ab82e3635c2889cfa82ee7c1e0d5ec6bd829395db3d04b6fa80f360b3bd8cfec7e9494332b029ba2aae0fe590c144eb14adb8e16ba0a25c20ad8d0,a21a980fc9ae82b90344e8e2490da9c9765f80bc07f3bf832af1bc68c25608cb3676313de1178082929481f08996fab332d11abc832d646b4190dcd4053a560798767a2b01f413511d637166098f602bf785dbed49486771a6d542a78f54fa34f7055f0c3f11829fbec3624b9273f8f987670dd6453a6fb313c7466848b2a23f,3c88434bf33b1a74ef91c2394783a5eab326dbe5c633b58f766dd18210e0eaa4c104e9df1404c3f685239d95df014bf7835fe3b50ceeeab1ef2df69368bfe79deaa0153eeae2f4e5a18410623a27d61bc4808ae80bfd2961b0ed1d9054eecd69bf55938e3b05852f6031ed2fe5ebe747520fc0fff69af2536f42ee27b9fa4d7b,d99d5fff8862230d8aa205e973a3bdf45638ddd1
> 
> Thats a real y,p,g,q set - and that's a big header.

That still slides under 1024 by a couple hundred.

-- 

# tavin cole
#
# "The process of scientific discovery is, in effect,
#  a continual flight from wonder."
#                                   - Albert Einstein


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