On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Leif Johansson <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> Just doing the math yourself, from scratch, is pretty easy if you have the
>>> bare key.  It's nigh-on trivial if you have a bigint library.  Solution:
>>> don't use OpenSSL.  I propose we don't get bogged down in the certificate
>>> problem for the moment.
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>> Cryptographer's warning: do not do this. Hard hat area ahead.
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> That is advice for implementors and not for spec writers, right?

Correct. Getting the implementation right is tricky.

-Ekr
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