What do you mean by "did not work"? Please provide more information.

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 05:38:11PM -0800, James Goodrich wrote:
> Thanks again Wei.  I promise this is the last follow up in this thread.  Your 
> suggestion worked for the case cited, but did not work in the following instance:
> 
>                       RSAES_PKCS1v15_Decryptor RsaPrv;
>                       RsaPrv.AccessKey().BERDecodeKey(bqRsaPrv);
> 
> Could you give me one of your famous 1 or 2 lines of code that make everything work?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wei Dai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 3:00 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Getting different results from different Crypto++ versions
> 
> 
> RSASSA_PKCS1v15_MD5_Signer RsaPrv;
> RsaPrv.AccessKey().BERDecodeKey(bqRsaPrv);
> 
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 02:18:11PM -0800, James Goodrich wrote:
> > Thanks Wei, that did the trick.  Now I have to solve the problem in reverse: I 
> > need to use the byte queue to create a key, which I assume is now expecting the 
> > x509/pkcs8 wrapped key. How can I get the following to work in 5.1, after making 
> > the modifications to the sample code as you suggested?
> > 
> >     RSASSA_PKCS1v15_MD5_Signer RsaPrv( bqRsaPrv );
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wei Dai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 1:07 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Getting different results from different Crypto++ versions
> > 
> > 
> > You can get the same behavior in 5.1 using:
> > 
> > RsaPrv.GetKey().DEREncodeKey(bqRsaPrv);
> > 
> > The DEREncode() function added an additional x509/pkcs8 wrapper around the
> > key to be more compatible with other applications.
> > 
> > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 11:21:40AM -0800, James Goodrich wrote:
> > > I have a question as to why some very similar code produces different results 
> > > using two different versions of Crypto++, and more importantly, how to replicate 
> > > the results using the former version with the latter.
> > > 
> > > Here is the code, first using the older version.  Unfortunately, I'm not sure of 
> > > the version, but it's somewhere around 3.5
> > > /////////////////////////
> > >   time_t Time;
> > >   time(&Time);
> > > 
> > >   BlockTransformation *pCipher = new DES_EDE_Encryption( (BYTE*)CIPHER_SEED);
> > >   X917RNG rng( pCipher,(BYTE*)&Time );
> > > 
> > >   RSAES_PKCS1v15_Decryptor RsaPrv( rng, 1024 );
> > >   RSAES_PKCS1v15_Encryptor RsaPub( RsaPrv );
> > > 
> > >   ByteQueue bqRsaPrv;
> > >   RsaPrv.DEREncode( bqRsaPrv );
> > >   DWORD dwcbRsaPrv = bqRsaPrv.CurrentSize();
> > > 
> > >   ByteQueue bqRsaPub;
> > >   RsaPub.DEREncode( bqRsaPub );
> > >   DWORD dwcbRsaPub = bqRsaPub.CurrentSize();
> > > //////////////////////////
> > > 
> > > Now an attempt to do this same thing using version 5.1
> > > /////////////////////////
> > >   time_t Time;
> > >   time(&Time);
> > > 
> > >   BlockTransformation *pCipher = new DES::Encryption( (BYTE*)CIPHER_SEED);
> > >   X917RNG rng( pCipher,(BYTE*)&Time );
> > > 
> > >   RSAES_PKCS1v15_Decryptor RsaPrv( rng, 1024 );
> > >   RSAES_PKCS1v15_Encryptor RsaPub( RsaPrv );
> > > 
> > >   ByteQueue bqRsaPrv;
> > >   RsaPrv.DEREncode( bqRsaPrv );
> > >   DWORD dwcbRsaPrv = bqRsaPrv.CurrentSize();
> > > 
> > >   ByteQueue bqRsaPub;
> > >   RsaPub.DEREncode( bqRsaPub );
> > >   DWORD dwcbRsaPub = bqRsaPub.CurrentSize();
> > > ///////////////////////////
> > > 
> > > In the first case, I get 
> > > 
> > >   dwcbRsaPrv = 605
> > >   dwcbRsaPub = 138
> > > 
> > > In the second case, I get
> > > 
> > >   dwcbRsaPrv = 633
> > >   dwcbRsaPub = 160
> > > 
> > > Why the difference in size and what can I do differently to get the previous 
> > > sizes to be returned using the newer version (which is what I really need).
> > > 

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