Re: RSA 1024 in certificate
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Re: RSA 1024 in certificate

From: Bryan Olson <fakeaddress@nowhere.org>
Date: Mon Feb 06 2006 - 20:01:02 CET

I wrote:
> MajorSoul wrote:
>
>> why does the DER encoding of public key modulus begins with
>> 02 81 81 00 and not with 02 81 80 ??
>
>
> The latter would mean the modulus is negative.

Uh ... I meant what Tom had already said.

Incidentally, at present you can get a fine book on ASN.1, for
free (with registration) from:

     http://www.oss.com/asn1/larmouth.html

-- 
--Bryan
Received on Tue Feb 7 21:00:07 2006