On Tue, Feb 07, 2006, Bob Mearns wrote:

> 
> I appreciate that the security of such a short signature is paltry.
> In my application, the signature length (keeping it short) is as
> important as the security (odd as that may seem).  I've not found
> a way to generate signatures as short as I'd like using OpenSSL -
> is there just no way to do it using PK?
> 

HMAC might be usable. It isn't a public key algorithm but it might do
depending on your application.

Steve.
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