# Gavin Andresen
# 2012-06-04 15:17:45
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=80521.msg940276#msg940276

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 @p{brk}
Signatures are BER-encoded data structures, and can be an arbitrary number of bytes (if they're DER-encoded, which is the strict subset of BER encoding, then they're 70-something bytes). @p{par}

Public keys are either 33 or 65 bytes (not counting the "push the next N bytes onto the stack" CSCript opcode). @p{par}

I've got to say you make me nervous; you seem to be following a "make it work for a couple of test cases then move on" style of development, which is a bad way to create a secure, robust codebase. @p{par}

PS: I sympathize with you RE: OpenSSL's lack of documentation.... @p{par}