On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
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Yeah, I think it's pretty big, plus I believe most of these packages
require
openssl and other huge add-ons to run. The basics of public-key
cryptography, however, are pretty simple, so I think it'd be possible to
make a small (a few K,
And Jack Coats pointed out gpgv that might fit on a CD (283932 bytes),
to which Jeff Newmiller reminded all that gpg will take that much
ramdisk + RAM to run in...
gpgv is the verification only part, and looking through the source code,
most of it is gpg stubbed out (to be as small as
Thought I'd contribute my brief understanding of
package signing using openssl. I believe this package can
be customized on install so that it only provides the
tools you need. Package signing only needs (I believe) 4:
md5, rsautl, genrsa, and rsa.
First, you need the md5 hash
