Stephen Durdin wrote:
I admit that I'm new to this technology so please bear with me.
> We want to use FIPS OpenSSL for all of our "over-the-wire" security
> and the AES_encrypt and AES_decrypt APIs for local password security.
> I created an AES256 key using "openssl genrsa -aes256 -out aes256key.pem",
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This does *not* generate an AES256 key, but, as "genrsa" says, an RSA key.
> thus the PEM file. I want to get this file into an AES_KEY structure so I
> can use it to encrypt/decrypt passwords, etc. Any suggestions?
Ciao,
Richard
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Dr. Richard W. Könning
Fujitsu Siemens Computers GmbH
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