From: Marc.Ringuette@GS80.SP.CS.CMU.EDU
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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From: Marc.Ringuette@GS80.SP.CS.CMU.EDU
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 93 12:30:20 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: possible solution to the anonymous harrassment problem
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> If you read closer, you will see that you need "special permission from
> RSADSI" to use non-published interfaces to RSAREF.
I thought their interface was good enough to do all of the obvious
operations -- RSA block encrypt and decrypt being the most important --
and that this restriction was just to prevent bizarrelly hacked
versions of their code from being confused with the original.
> R_SignPEMBlock computes a digital signature on a message
> R_VerifyBlockSignature verifies a digital signature on a block of
> data such as a certificate
Let me know if I'm wrong, but I don't think I am.
-- Marc Ringuette (mnr@cs.cmu.edu)
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