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.
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