Re: inconsistency and incompleteness in the apps wrt dsa and dh

[Bodo Moeller]

On Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 12:45:16PM +0100, Dr Stephen Henson wrote:
> Bodo Moeller wrote:

>> And the ASN.1 structure for DH parameters does not allow storing the
>> order of the generator (that is, the sub-prime; or at least it's
>> likely to be prime in those cases where one would like to store it).
>> In fact even the DH data structure does not have a component for it.

> Yes thats true for the PKCS#3 DH support in OpenSSL. X9.42 DH does have
> support for including these additional parameters though.

Is there a canonical way to extend the ASN.1 that we have for DH to
allow including optional subprimes?
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