> On 12/14/05, Peter Gutmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't know if there's any site tracking this, but (as the > tutorial says) you > > can either go with PKCS #1 (the de facto standard, easy to > implement and > > widely used) ... > > Actually, I'm embarassed to admit this but I've seen PKCS before but > never with enough context to know what it was; I thought it was some > kind of RSA proprietary mumbo-jumbo. But, oh dear, it involves ASN.1. > That rules out use by the layperson. I've run into ASN.1 before with > regard to SNMP, and it struck me as infinitely more complex than > anything I'd ever need to query packet counts on my router.
Have a look at PKCS#1. There's hardly any ASN.1 in it at all and the structures are relatively simple. There's also a PKCS examples document that talks you through it. William --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
