Field separators

[Brad Fitzpatrick]

True.  Explicit p/g it is.  Better than sending two public keys.  :-)

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Paul Crowley wrote:

> Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
> > It'd still work:  The server would just have to return:
> >
> >    openid.i_see_your_p_and_g_and_used_them = 1
> >
> > Then the consumer-of-the-future looks for that and knows to proceed with
> > either the "version 1" p and g defaults, or the ones it sent.
>
> Yes, that's what I thought at first.  But if I used my p to generate gx,
> and you interpreted gx by your p, then it won't work out at all;
> essentially, gx becomes a public key to which I don't know the private
> key, so I can't make use of the result you send me.
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