Hi Folks,
Would appreciate some responses for the questions below.

Most importantly-

I see the following note in
http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/pkcs8.html
"The format of PKCS#8 DSA (and other) private keys is not well documented:
it is hidden away in PKCS#11 v2.01, section 11.9. OpenSSL's default DSA
PKCS#8 private key format complies with this standard. "

 *Are the private keys for DSA (generated using the openssl API i mention in
my emails below) encoded using any of the PKCS formats?. Is it PKCS8?*

Thanks
-AG

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Anand Giriraj <anand.giri...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Sorry there was a small typo
> s/DSA_generate_keys/DSA_generate_key
>
> Could I possibly use EVP_PKEY2PKCS8() api for the encoding?
>
> Regards
> -AG
>
>   On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Anand Giriraj 
> <anand.giri...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks.
>> If I generate DSA private key using the following commands:
>>
>> DSA_generate_params()
>> DSA_generate_keys()
>>
>> The resulting private keys are not encoded using any of the PKCS formats,
>> right?. If wrong, which format are they encoded in?.
>>
>> Would it be appropriate to encode them in PKCS8?. And if so which openssl
>> API could I use?
>>
>> Thanks
>> -AG
>>
>
>

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