On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:22 PM, <carlyo...@keycomm.co.uk> wrote: > >>On Thu 13/08/09 4:46 AM , Sudarshan Soma sudarshan...@gmail.com sent: >>Hi >>Can anone please clarify this data with OPENSSL 0.9.8i: >> >>RSA uses key ranges from 768-2048 and can operate only in CBC mode >> >>DSA uses key length of 1024 and operates only in CBC > > ? CBC chaining mode only applies to symmetric cipher algorithms such as AES > and 3DES as far as I know. > > RSA uses PKCS padding, v1.5, OEAP, PSS, etc. > > DSA - no idea. > > Carl > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org > Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org >
Hi I was just confused with option des3 below for rsa where we can encrypt publc keys with with des3 CBC modes or something similar to that. openssl rsa -des3 ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
