On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Keith Ellul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Basically, I see that ECDH is part of openSSL. I have an ECC keypair, and I
> have someone else's ECC public key. I want to use ECDH to agree on some key
> material. Can I do this from the command line (ie, using the openSSL
> executable)? I was hoping for an "openssl ecdh" command, but, there doesn't
> appear to be one. I've read through the docs for "ec", "ecparam", and
> "dhparam", as well as various forum posts, and I can't find anything. Is
> there a command (or set of commands) to do what I want to do?
No, there's no command like that. Most of the command line tools for
public-key crytography are just for generating and handling keys, but
not for actually using them for the respective cryptographic
operations -- you'd have to use some program on top of the OpenSSL
library for that.
Bodo
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