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Based on my experience, most key requiring programs use public key crypto and pin their public key in the binary to verify the signature, which is the key.
by xfer 7y ago
Based on my experience, most key requiring programs use public key crypto and pin their public key in the binary to verify the signature, which is the key.
- nullc 7y agoThat hasn't been my experience. I've seen some that use public key crypto, but mostly they do not because even the smallest secure cryptosystems have signatures on the order of at least 20 bytes (and more conventional choices more like 256-bit ECDSA... 64 bytes)-- which, after conversion to typeable characters, are a bit unwieldy.