Bug?? I do not think so.
I was able to get this result when giving it a zero value for the peer
public key. There is nothing cryptographically sensible about a zero public
key, but DH_compute_key() goes ahead and dutifully computes (0)^priv_key mod
p, which really is just 0.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh Howlett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 5:12 PM
Subject: help: DH_compute_key
> Hi all,
>
> Why might I be getting a return value of 0 from DH_compute_key (i.e.
> secret key size = 0). I get no errors when generating DH_generate
> parameters (return value=1). Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> josh.
>
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