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Re: Digital Signatures





Anonymous writes:
> > You also need to be able to compute SHA1 hashes.  I've been using
> > something called "sha1file" which, I believe, originated at Adam
> > Back's web site.
> 
> That program has a bug.  The routine SHA1_update in the file sha1.c
> is missing a line:
> 
>    while ( ctx->mlen == 64 )
>    {
>       convert_to_bigendian( (word32*)ctx->M, 64 );
>       SHA1_transform( ctx );
>       use = min( 64, data_len );
>       memcpy( ctx->M, data, use );
>       ctx->mlen = use;
>       data_len -= use;
> ***   data += use;  ***  MISSING  ***
>    }
> 
> Correcting this will make your hashes be correct.

The version on my web pages for the last couple of versions has this
bug fixed.  http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/eternity/sha1.tgz

Adam
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