On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 02:58:45PM +0200, Judith Retief wrote: > > I have to encrypt and decrypt an RSA key using symmetrical encryption, > using RC4 or one of the other symmetrical encryption APIs. I'm working in C. > > > But I assume I can't just give the RSA key struct to the encryption > algorithm as input data; its members are BIGNUM pointers so the structure > has dynamic data that is not part of the struct footprint. I need to stream > the RSA struct into a continious memory byte buffer to give to the > encryption algorithm, and after decrypting this stream I need to build up > the RSA key struct from it. > > Are there standard functions available for these streaming functions? Or > do I have to pull apart the pem_asn1_write/read() functions and implement my > own? Am I guaranteed that the internal structure of the RSA struct will > remain the same?
It is ASN.1 and DER that are here to guarantee encoded data will be restored on any platform > > Regards, > Judith > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Naina library: http://www.unity.net/~vf/naina_r1.tgz ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
