Vitaly Chikunov <vt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Current akcipher .verify() just decrypts signature to uncover message > hash, which is then verified in upper level public_key_verify_signature > by memcmp with the expected signature value, which is never passed into > verify(). I think it would be better to make ->verify() take the data hash we've been given rather than returning the expected hash for the caller to compare. That way the callers don't have to do two different things, depending on how the crypto algo works. David