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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: MD4 fails every article
Message-ID: <1991May29.051312.24639@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 29 May 91 05:13:12 GMT
References: <992@fnx.UUCP>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <992@fnx.UUCP> news@fnx.UUCP (News Administrator) writes:
>I built up the md4 stuff that came across the net and tried to apply
>it to some of the stuff in the comp.sources.misc group.  Every single
>article with a X-Md4-Signature header in it failed the test.  Anyone
>else run into this?

 It is computing the MD4 signature based on the assumption that inews
will add your .signature file to the end.  There is a flag to turn this
off.  But for normal use, compute the signature, append .signature and
then test.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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