----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Clarke" <[email protected]> To: <devl at freenetproject.org> Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 6:28 PM Subject: Re: [freenet-devl] Bug Report - 0.3.9.1 - FCP generates bad keypair
> On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 10:58:29AM +1200, David McNab wrote: > > To get a working Freenet keypair with FCP, > > 1) Use the FCP 'GenerateSVKKeypair' command, and save the private key > > 2) Use the 'ClientPut' command to insert anything as > > SSK at privatekey/anything. Perhaps use htl=1 to make it quick. > > 3) Read the FCP 'Success' message that comes back, and extract the enclosed > > public key. > > I assume this is a workaround for the bug you described earlier rather > than the suggested approach? Actually it was a deficiency in the FCP specs. GenerateSVKKeypair returns a keypair without the last three bytes -- the keysize and keytype. This was not accidental, although the docs are lacking in what exactly is returned. > Ian. -Mathew _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
