[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ulf Moeller) writes:
>> >Was I assuming too much when I assumed that OpenSSL would be a useful
>> >framework for implementing cryptosystems not currently used by SSL or
>> >TLS?
>>
>> It depends on what you want to do. I have found OpenSSL a very useful
>> basis for my OpenPGP
Marc Horowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> On a different topic, I need to use El Gamal, so I'm going to
>> implement it. I'm a US citizen, so I can't contribute the code to
>> openssl (*maybe* the signature code, but I'd want a legal opinion
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>>
>> > - There's no way to generate a DH private key or public key, or to
>> > combine them into a shared secret. (The API function names for this,
>> > DH_generate_key, and DH_compute_key, are also confusing.)
You missed the beginning of my post:
I'm a little
I'm a little confused by the gendh, dh, gendsa, dsaparam, and dsa
commands.
"gendh" creates a set of dh parameters (p,g) and writes it out
"dh" reads the dh parameters and prints them
"dsaparam" creates or reads a set of dsa paremters (p,q,g) and writes it out.
It optionally (using a fl