Fw: Problem/bug report for "bad decrypted len" error in OpenSSH

[Markus Friedl]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 05:55:30PM -0700, Dan Kaminsky wrote:
> 
> >If anyone wants to do a private key sign, and the key is located in a device
> >or the Microsoft certificate store in which the private key cannot be
> >accessed directly ( you cannot access the private key directly for
> >encryption or decryption ) he must use Microsoft Crypto API. That exact
> >Microsoft Crypto API method always returns 36 bytes instead of the 35 bytes
> >(OpenSSH standard).
> >  
> >
> 
> This number cannot be correct; neither RSA nor DSA can (easily) provide
> digital signatures in 280/288 bits.

this is about something different. this is about pkcs#1