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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><font style="font-size:16pt;" color="#5133AB" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Dear Sir.<br><br>I read about the new NDN packet format and in the signature block i read about signature types : i was wondering if i could use one of the values to attach a new algorithms such as merkle trees or ecdsa to sign a packet over ndnSIM <br></b></font><br id="FontBreak"><table class="docutils" border="1"><thead valign="bottom"><tr class="row-odd"><th class="head">Value</th>
<th class="head">Reference</th>
<th class="head">Description</th>
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<tr class="row-even"><td>0</td>
<td><a class="reference internal" href="http://named-data.net/doc/ndn-tlv/signature.html#digestsha256"><em>DigestSha256</em></a></td>
<td>Integrity protection using SHA-256 digest</td>
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<tr class="row-odd"><td>1</td>
<td><a class="reference internal" href="http://named-data.net/doc/ndn-tlv/signature.html#signaturesha256withrsa"><em>SignatureSha256WithRsa</em></a></td>
<td>Integrity and provenance protection using
RSA signature over a SHA-256 digest</td>
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<tr class="row-even"><td>2-200</td>
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<td>reserved for future assignments</td>
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<tr class="row-odd"><td>>200</td>
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<td>unassigned</td></tr></tbody></table> <br><br><font style="font-size:16pt;" color="#5133AB" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Best Wishes<br><br>AL IMEM ALI</b></font><br> </div></body>
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