Yadis.... now OpenID

Brad Fitzpatrick brad at danga.com
Wed May 18 00:49:18 PDT 2005


On Tue, 17 May 2005, Karl Koscher wrote:

>  > DSA signature is now BASE64(DER(ASN1(SEQUENCE(INTEGER,INTEGER))))
>
> I'm not certain, but this might be proceeded by a variable number of
> 0x00s to bring the total length to 48 bytes.

No, it won't be padded.  The size will range from 46 to 48 bytes.

If you write a DSA verifier in PHP, do share (if you open source it at
least).  If not, don't taint our eyes.  :)

- Brad



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