On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 07:37:09PM -0600, David DeSimone wrote:
> As I understand it, a PGP signature is not an encryption of the message,
> but an encryption of an MD5 (or SHA) *digest* of the message. This is
> like a checksum, though much more sophisticated, but it is always the
> same size. Therefore, the encryption of the message digest will also be
> the same size, always.
This is true. To clarify even more, the signature is always the same size
as the number of bits in your OpenPGP public key, regardless of which message
digest algorithm you are using.
me
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