[cryptopp-users] Re: Using Crypto++ to sign using private key; SHA1 vs Whirlpool

2019-01-23 Thread Olli Savolainen
Thank you Jeff. I appreciate it a lot. Basically I would like to convert the code in the first example (below) to use anything safe to first sign the message with a private key and then verify and extract with public key (the 'recovered' variable below). No need for any large content, yeah.

[cryptopp-users] Re: Using Crypto++ to sign using private key; SHA1 vs Whirlpool

2019-01-23 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 11:09:49 AM UTC-5, Olli Savolainen wrote: > > Thank you Jeff. I appreciate it a lot. > > Basically I would like to convert the code in the first example (below) to > use anything safe to first sign the message with a private key and then > verify and extract

[cryptopp-users] Re: Website is down

2019-01-23 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 1:22:09 AM UTC-5, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > A spammer got around our defenses and hit our wiki. It looks like they > created about 65 accounts (maybe more) and dropped 998 new spam pages > starting on 31 December 2018. New pages 999 and 1000 are ones I

[cryptopp-users] Re: Using Crypto++ to sign using private key; SHA1 vs Whirlpool

2019-01-23 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Saturday, January 12, 2019 at 6:16:27 AM UTC-5, Olli Savolainen wrote: > > > I'm using crypto++ according to the RSA-PSSR-Filter-Test.zip example from > this link and it works: > http://marko-editor.com/articles/cryptopp_sign_string/ > > I'm trying to find something I can use reliably for

[cryptopp-users] Wiki account creation is diasbled

2019-01-23 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Everyone, At the 1.31 upgrade I disables ConfirmEdit extension because of problems it was causing. Disabling ConfirmEdit was a bad idea because it let the spam through. I revisited the ConfirmEdit problem but have not been able to get the extension to work with Mediawiki 1.31.1. It either