[openssl.org #3604] [PATCH] User can specify the public exponent in genrsa

2014-11-28 Thread Matt Caswell via RT
Quentin, Please can you resubmit this patch as an attachment rather than inline? Email has mangled it, and I am unable to review it. Thanks Matt __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org

Re: [openssl.org #3604] [PATCH] User can specify the public exponent in genrsa

2014-11-28 Thread Quentin Gouchet
Hi Matt, Sure I will do that! Viktor, the point is that is some cases it would nuce to be able to change exponents, especially the day that we might discover any threat in F4. Also just adding more possibilities for the user. Best Le 28 nov. 2014 10:28, Viktor Dukhovni openssl-us...@dukhovni.org

Re: [openssl.org #3604] [PATCH] User can specify the public exponent in genrsa

2014-11-28 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 10:31:57AM -0600, Quentin Gouchet wrote: Viktor, the point is that is some cases it would nuce to be able to change exponents, especially the day that we might discover any threat in F4. If F_4 is found to be weak, RSA crypto-system will be abandoned. There will not be

[openssl.org #3604] [PATCH] User can specify the public exponent in genrsa

2014-11-17 Thread Quentin Gouchet via RT
The user can specify as an hexadecimal string the RSA public exponent e in the RSA key generation. e has to be odd and greater than 65537. Example: openssl genrsa -public 123456789 -out key.pem 4096 Modified the name of exponent --- apps/genrsa.c | 46