Re: [pde-build-dev] Strange error when doing pack200 normalization on Wi

["Barrie Treloar" <baerrach@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/14/07, Thomas Hallgren <thomas@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> you nailed this one right away. I was using Eclipse 3.2.2. Thanks for
> the info, problem solved.
>
> Just out of curiosity, even if the normalize process adds an extraneous
> CR to the file, why does that matter? Why isn't the signer simply using
> the bytes it finds for the SHA1 calculation?

Because signature validation is

SHA1(bytes of current file) == SHA1 signature from manifest ==
SHA1(bytes of original file)

so if bytes of current file are different then the signatures will not verify