Wow can't believe I already got an answer! Thanks so much guys I should be good
to go.
On Aug 14, 2012, at 6:59 PM, Jason Goldberg <jgoldb...@oneid.com> wrote:
> Before you call generate_key, you need to initialize your EC_KEY with a curve:
>
> EC_GROUP *group = EC_GROUP_new_by_curve_name(curve);
> EC_KEY_set_group(testKey, group);
>
> For 'curve' you could use, for example, NIST P256 which is defined with the
> macro: NID_X9_62_prime256v1
>
> You can then use these primitives to get the public and private keys:
>
> EC_KEY_get0_private_key
> EC_KEY_get0_public_key
>
> Jason
>
> On Aug 14, 2012, at 5:49 PM, Tom Leavy <tombu...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I have been trying to figure out how to generate an elliptic curve public
>> private key pair and can't find much information on how you properly do
>> that. So far I have done the following and I'm pretty sure I am missing a
>> step someplace.
>>
>> void makeECCKeyPair() {
>> EC_KEY *testKey = EC_KEY_new();
>> EC_KEY_generate_key(testKey);
>> }
>
