> On Mar 17, 2016, at 5:17 PM, Blumenthal, Uri - 0553 - MITLL <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> I’ve an extremely naïve question. I am generating ephemeral EC keys for ECDH,
> following the example in
> https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/EVP_Key_and_Parameter_Generation
>
> But it looks like the example ends on generation of the private key:
> /* Generate the key */
> if (!EVP_PKEY_keygen(kctx, &key)) goto err;
>
>
> The next step must be obvious, but somehow I can’t figure it out. So my
> question is: from having EVP_PKEY *privateECKey how do I get EVP_PKEY
> *publicECKey?
The public key is always there. You either have both the public and private
keys
or just the public key. So the same EVP_PKEY object holds both. What you do
next depends on what you want to do with the public key...
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Viktor.
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