On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Keith Ellul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Basically, I see that ECDH is part of openSSL. I have an ECC keypair, and I > have someone else's ECC public key. I want to use ECDH to agree on some key > material. Can I do this from the command line (ie, using the openSSL > executable)? I was hoping for an "openssl ecdh" command, but, there doesn't > appear to be one. I've read through the docs for "ec", "ecparam", and > "dhparam", as well as various forum posts, and I can't find anything. Is > there a command (or set of commands) to do what I want to do? No, there's no command like that. Most of the command line tools for public-key crytography are just for generating and handling keys, but not for actually using them for the respective cryptographic operations -- you'd have to use some program on top of the OpenSSL library for that. Bodo ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [email protected] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
