On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Vadim Fedukovich wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 07:35:59PM -0500, Manish Ramesh Chablani wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am new to openSSL. I want to use openSSL to provide cryptographic
> > functions like (key generation, encryption with public key, signing with private
> > key, MD5 calculation) i.e. basically I want to use OpenSSL's Crypto library. I
> > am trying to add authentication/security in MPI implementation.
> > I am having problems getting started. For example how do I generate a
> > RSA public key, private key pair from within my C program.
> > I looked at the API for rsa, its given below
> > RSA *RSA_generate_key(int num, unsigned long e,
> > void (*callback)(int,int,void *), void *cb_arg);
> >
> > but I dont want to decide the args to be passed to this API. I just want to
> > generate random rsa key pair.
>
> would you like it of random size? Or maybe 1024-bits?
I would like 1024 bits for first argument. But what should I pass as
remaining arguments ? Also do I have to set up random seed before I
generate keys ?
Thanks,
Manish
>
> >
> > Please help.
> >
> > Also if you can point me to some documentation or brief tutorial on using the
> > crypto library it will be great.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Manish
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Manish Chablani,
> > Graduate Student,
> > Computer Science Department,
> > Indiana University
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