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Leading two octets of message digest: L,

To enable the recipient to determine if the correct public key (k(A)

e ) was used to decrypt the message digest for authentication, by comparing this

plaintext copy of the first two octets with the first two octets of the

decrypted digest.

These octets also serve as a 16-bit frame-check sequence for the message,

for authentication and error detection.

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