Re: [opensc-devel] DSA, ECDSA

2006-04-24 Thread Nils Larsch
Bruce Stephens wrote: ... apropos 0.9.8, ECC and engine support: before 0.9.8 was released I hide the ECDSA and ECDH method structures in openssl internal header files as I wasn't really sure what are really necessary => there isn't actually a clean/simple way to implement a ecdsa engine at the m

Re: [opensc-devel] DSA, ECDSA

2006-04-24 Thread Bruce Stephens
Nils Larsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > perhaps DSA is a waste of time (I've never seen a smartcard actually > using it ...) Ah, OK. That makes testing challenging. As you say, there's unlikely to be a big demand anyway. [...] > apropos 0.9.8, ECC and engine support: before 0.9.8 was

Re: [opensc-devel] DSA, ECDSA

2006-04-24 Thread Nils Larsch
Bruce Stephens wrote: Looking through engine-pkcs11, and then libp11, it looks like they don't support anything much except RSA. not really surprising as opensc only supports RSA (and until recently almost all hardware uses RSA so there was no overwhelming need for something else then RSA).

Re: [opensc-devel] DSA, ECDSA

2006-04-24 Thread Stef Hoeben
Hi, Bruce Stephens wrote: Looking through engine-pkcs11, and then libp11, it looks like they don't support anything much except RSA. That's not an immediate problem (since I don't have any cards that would support anything except RSA), but is there any stronger reason than that? It looks l

[opensc-devel] DSA, ECDSA

2006-04-24 Thread Bruce Stephens
Looking through engine-pkcs11, and then libp11, it looks like they don't support anything much except RSA. That's not an immediate problem (since I don't have any cards that would support anything except RSA), but is there any stronger reason than that? It looks like there's some code in libope