Re: Nested ASN1 strings and OPENSSL_ALLOW_NESTED_ASN1_STRINGS

2007-06-27 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007, Williams Bryn-R40716 wrote: Hi, A team in our organisation has a small ASN.1 decoding example that works with openssl 0.9.7g, but not with any more recent release. The reason seems to be that the ASN.1 structure in question includes (perhaps wrongly) a nested ASN.1

openssl function to convert pkcs#8

2007-06-27 Thread Janet N
Hi, Is there a function in openssl that can convert a private key from a pkcs#8 to pkcs#1? I've done this with the command line and it works fine, just want to do this programmatically: command line (want to do this using openssl function instead): openssl pkcs8 -inform PEM -nocrypt -in

Re: openssl function to convert pkcs#8

2007-06-27 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007, Janet N wrote: Hi, Is there a function in openssl that can convert a private key from a pkcs#8 to pkcs#1? I've done this with the command line and it works fine, just want to do this programmatically: command line (want to do this using openssl function instead):

Need some information regarding openssl rsa

2007-06-27 Thread bibhuti prusty
Hi all, I am using openssl for rsa encryption/decryption. I have some questions. 1. What is the format of the encrypted data ?? It is neither ascii text not binary nor unicode. what is it ?? 2. How is the input data interpreted ?? I mean is there a number associated with all the characters ??

Windows Build of openssl-0.9.8e taking forever

2007-06-27 Thread Mark E Schoneman
Anyone, I'm trying to build openssl-0..8e and it stuck at C:\openssl-0.9.8eperl util\mkdef.pl 32 libeay 1ms\libeay32.def with 100% cpu. I'm using the cygwin perl. Thanks Mark S

RE: Need some information regarding openssl rsa

2007-06-27 Thread David Schwartz
I am using openssl for rsa encryption/decryption. I have some questions. 1. What is the format of the encrypted data ?? It is neither ascii text not binary nor unicode. what is it ?? There are any number of possible formats for encrypted data. You could have raw binary RSA encrypted data,