On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Jose Castejon-Amenedo wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 10:49, Rich Salz wrote:
> > > Therefore, what is a 1,024-bit input?
> >
> > In terms of the OpenSSL API, the buffer that is passed in will be 128 bytes.
> > /r$
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> OK. I would like to add to what you (correctly) wrote earlier on: a
> 1,024-bit RSA key works on 1,024 bits of input and returns 1,024 bits of
> output. The actual numerical value of the input can be any positive
> integer smaller than the RSA modulus. In order to have 1,024 bits worth
> of input, a left-padding with zeros is assumed by RSA_NO_PADDING.
Yeah! The man page should mention this. A buffer of value 255 will
cause errors! We are not always encrypting TEXT.
Xinwen Fu
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