Field separators

Paul Crowley paul at ciphergoth.org
Mon Jun 6 13:47:11 PDT 2005


Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
>>PKCS #3 (ftp://ftp.rsasecurity.com/pub/pkcs/ascii/pkcs-3.asc) recommends
>>that the group parameters be chosen by a central authority, though, and
>>that's my inclination if it wouldn't offend anyone too much.  We'll just
>>use some group parameters that SSH also uses.  The first line in my SSH
>>moduli file looks like it would be fine.
> 
> 
> So every OpenID consumer and server always uses the same p and g?

Yes.  Saves on sending them every time.  If we later decidde that's a 
problem, we can add fields to specify p and g, and default them to the 
values in the spec.
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