On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 8:57 PM, Niels Möller <[email protected]> wrote:

>> That's correct, but I think that's the responsibility of the caller to
>> supply the corresponding keys.
> But I think we'de want to ensure that nettle doesn't crash; an
> application should be able to read key files controlled by an attacker
> and use them with nettle without crashing (bogus outputs are of course
> expected).
> And I feel a little uneasy about ensuring that nettle's rsa functions
> work without crashing if the size field is too large or too small; that
> violates assumptions I made when writing the code quite some time ago...
> It might be not too difficult, but I'd feel better about having the
> _prepare functions be responsible for setting the size correctly.

I think that's fair. And providing an efficient variant would be an
incentive for applications to use them much easier. Anyway I believe I
can work-around that.

regards,
Nikos
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