Re: inconsistency and incompleteness in the apps wrt dsa and dh

1999-07-24 Thread Marc Horowitz
[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

Re: inconsistency and incompleteness in the apps wrt dsa and dh

1999-07-12 Thread Marc Horowitz
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

Re: inconsistency and incompleteness in the apps wrt dsa and dh

1999-07-10 Thread Marc Horowitz
[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

inconsistency and incompleteness in the apps wrt dsa and dh

1999-07-09 Thread Marc Horowitz
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