[OTR-dev] Fingerprints?

[alex323]

"What the above is saying is that you need
to encode it as 00000003123456, not 0000000400123456 or any other
such thing."

Why wouldn't it be encoded as 6123456?

0x00123456 == 0x123456 == (len = 6) == 0x0006123456 == 0x6123456

^^ Right? ^^

Regards,
Alex


Ian Goldberg wrote:

>On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 09:34:56PM -0500, alex323 wrote:
>  
>
>>Do you remove the NULs at the beginning of the MPI when you are 
>>generating your session key? (secbytes).
>>
>>Write the value of secret as a minimum-length MPI, as specific above
>>   (4-byte big-endian len, len-byte big-endian value).  Let this
>>   (4+len)-byte value be "secbytes".
>>
>>
>>That seems to indicate to me that you leave the NULs there.
>>    
>>
>
>"minimum length" indicates the removal of leading 0x00 bytes.
>
>Let's say you've got an MPI with the (implausibly small) value of
>0x123456.  MathemaWtically, that's the same number as 0x00123456
>or 0x000000000000123456.  What the above is saying is that you need
>to encode it as 00000003123456, not 0000000400123456 or any other
>such thing.
>
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