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From: Martin Boßlet martin.boss...@googlemail.com**
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2011 7:21 AM
To: openssl-users@openssl.org
Subject: Re: Converting ECC public key point-compressed and uncompressed
My understanding is that to convert the form of ecc key from compressed to
uncompressed and from
I did dig arround more on the ecparam and ec options. Having a limited
knowledge on cryptograpy and specifically ecc key algorithm, and
experimenting with the CLI, I would like to clarify my understanding on
coverting the form of ecc key from compressed to uncompressed and vice
versa.
My
My understanding is that to convert the form of ecc key from compressed to
uncompressed and from uncompressed to compressed require the knowledge of
the ECC private key.
Is my understanding correct?
You might want to have a look at sections 2.3.3 and 2.3.4 in
Marti, thanks for your response.
Erwin
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From: Martin Boßlet martin.boss...@googlemail.com
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2011 7:21 AM
To: openssl-users@openssl.org
Subject: Re: Converting ECC public key point-compressed and uncompressed
My
Hi All,
I would like to know whether openssl API has function call for generating
ECC point-compression given that only the uncompressed ECC public key.
Likewise, given the point-compressed ECC Key, I would also like to recover
the uncompressed ECC key.
Thanks for the help
Regards,
Erwin
