🚀 go-pugleaf

Thus said strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight):
>I notice that one RIPEM public key in the public server file has its
>first 34 characters identical to my ripem public key. Perhaps this is
>related. It seems an unlikely coincidence, given that the two keys
>were generated by different individuals, apparently on different
>computers, and very likely at different clock times.

From the RIPEM distribution "todo" file:

#=== Documentation ===
#
#-- Explain that all keys start with a PKCS identifier, so people won't
#think RIPEM has a bug that makes all keys similar.

This probably explains much, if not all, of the similarity.
-- 
Marc VanHeyningen    mvanheyn@whale.cs.indiana.edu    MIME & RIPEM accepted
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