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Re: userauth_publickey_fromfile() fails occasionally for no reason

From: Peter Stuge <peter_at_stuge.se>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:02:34 +0100

Simon Josefsson wrote:
> > ping
>
> I pushed your patch, please test whether what is in git now works
> for both RSA and DSA.

So I was looking into this. The reason I didn't immediately apply the
patch to bring back the previous behavior of the libgcrypt code is
that it makes some assumptions on how r and s are stored internally
by libgcrypt and that doesn't seem as reliable as can be.

//Peter
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