Re: ECDSA

2008-11-17 Thread Larry Bugbee
I would to know how to generate a key with the ECDSA algorithm from openssl or do I have to use the ECDH algorithm for that? If I have to use ECDH, how do I generate a key? ECDH is only to share a secret key. Neither ECDSA or ECDH will generate an EC key. Assuming you have a key, ECDSA i

Re: openssl-0.9.8-stable-SNAP-20081115 and FIPS

2008-11-17 Thread The Doctor
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 02:33:18PM -0500, Green, Paul wrote: > Dear 'The Doctor', > > I am not on the OpenSSL team so I'm just speaking for myself here. But > I have done work on many other open-source products, so I'm responding > based on my overall experience with open-source development. > >

[PATCH] speed -multi buffered output fix

2008-11-17 Thread Artur Klauser
When running speed tests on multiple processes and using buffered output (e.g. to a file), openssl speed rsa1024 -multi 8 > result the child processes inherit pending buffered output from the parent process, which in turn they send back in the result pipe to the parent. This confuses the parser

RE: openssl-0.9.8-stable-SNAP-20081115 and FIPS

2008-11-17 Thread Green, Paul
Dear 'The Doctor', I am not on the OpenSSL team so I'm just speaking for myself here. But I have done work on many other open-source products, so I'm responding based on my overall experience with open-source development. When you find a problem in an open-source product, the accepted protocol i

Re: Cell support?

2008-11-17 Thread Jeff Curley
The Cell OS, I realize there are many folks who have gotten OpenSSL working on a version of version running on the Cell chip, but I'm tasked with trying to get it running on a PS3. After 3 days I ended up giving up and moving to yaSSL. There were just way too many problems targeting the Cell O