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

[Marc Horowitz]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ulf Moeller) writes:

>> >Was I assuming too much when I assumed that OpenSSL would be a useful
>> >framework for implementing cryptosystems not currently used by SSL or
>> >TLS?
>> 
>> It depends on what you want to do. I have found OpenSSL a very useful
>> basis for my OpenPGP implementation. Implementing ElGamal as specified
>> in OpenPGP was a matter of minutes (bignum support, parameter
>> generation and padding functions already being available). 

I did the same, and yes, it was pretty easy.  OpenSSL seems to be
about three or four different libraries (at least) rolled into one.
Some of them seem to be more mature than others.

>> Extending the EVP library probably is more work.

Yeah.  I decided not to bother.

                Marc
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