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Re: [TCLUG:11589] God help us all, it's emacs humor



Eric M. Hopper said:
> 	You need to compute some sort of message checksum to stick in
> here.  :-) Having it always be 12 makes it too obviously a signature
> block.  :-)

Or just have rotating/randomized sig blocks with different numbers in each.
Unless you send two or more identical messages, who's to say whether it's a
random number or a cryptographically secure (and thus highly unpredictable)
hash?

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