Re: cyphers and keys

2007-10-31 Thread egoitz
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have one worrying question... I have generated my keys and ca and all with easy-rsa package and he has generated 1024 bit rsa keys... but as far as I have seen openvpn is using blowfish... blowfish in a symetric encription cypher and rsa

RE: cyphers and keys

2007-10-30 Thread David Schwartz
I have one worrying question... I have generated my keys and ca and all with easy-rsa package and he has generated 1024 bit rsa keys... but as far as I have seen openvpn is using blowfish... blowfish in a symetric encription cypher and rsa is an asymetrical one... shouldn't match keys and

RE: cyphers and keys

2007-10-30 Thread Marek Marcola
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 02:59 -0700, David Schwartz wrote: I have one worrying question... I have generated my keys and ca and all with easy-rsa package and he has generated 1024 bit rsa keys... but as far as I have seen openvpn is using blowfish... blowfish in a symetric encription cypher

RE: cyphers and keys

2007-10-30 Thread David Schwartz
Asymmetric ciphers like RSA are used on very small pieces of information, not on bulk data. In the case of encryption, the asymmetric algorithm is used to securely exchange a random small number that is then used as the key in a symmetric algorithm like blowfish or AES. This number

Re: cyphers and keys

2007-10-30 Thread Gayathri S
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have one worrying question... I have generated my keys and ca and all with easy-rsa package and he has generated 1024 bit rsa keys... but as far as I have seen openvpn is using blowfish... blowfish in a symetric encription cypher and rsa is an