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

From: Mike Amling <nospam@foobaz.com>
Date: Mon Feb 06 2006 - 20:09:19 CET



MajorSoul wrote:


> why does the DER encoding of public key modulus begins with


> 02 81 81 00 and not with 02 81 80 ??



   So that the first byte of key data can have its high-order bit on and 


not be mistaken for a negative number.



--Mike Amling


Received on Tue Feb  7 21:00:07 2006