comment on reducing padding (Re: Re: libfastmint update 20040915)

Atom writes:
> thoughts (after i should be in bed) about getting rid of the padding...
> 
> hhmmm... what if the padding was done internally? instead of padding the 
> stamp that's output, a minting application would create a stamp _as_if_ it 
> were padded and a verifying application would internally add appropriate 
> padding before calculating the hash.

Yes I thought about this one also.  However the downside is one can no
longer easily verifying a stamp in script languages using the sha1sum
utility.  One first would have to undeo the padding compression.

Adam