[Wolves] so hows this signed messege work then?

Simon Morris mozrat at gmail.com
Wed Sep 28 17:34:30 BST 2005


On 28/09/05, Simon Morris <mozrat at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28/09/05, roundyz <roundyz at hotpop.com> wrote:
> > as subject?
> > I make a key i gathered that much.
> > The key was for encryption. it works for that.
> >
> > Hows it work for signing the message,
> > I know I don't need a key to open Ron's messages. So would that work with
> > mine?
> >
>
> Hmmm, how long do you have? Assuming you know that cryptography relies
> on a pair of numeric keys and that data encrypted by key A can only be
> decrypted by key B* _and_very_importantly_ visa versa.. data encrypted
> by key B can be decrypted by key A
>
> Your message is taken and hashed. That is the message is represented
> by a hash, and that hash can only represent that message. If you
> changed the message and rehashed it you would get a different hash
> digest.
>

Bugger - reading that email back it seems I was not very concise

That paragraph should read....

Ron's message is taken and hashed. That is the message is represented
by a hash, and that hash can only represent that message. If you
changed the message and rehashed it you would get a different hash
digest.


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