DH Generator 2

2008-06-23 Thread Steve . Pauly
Does anyone have a technical reference on the use of special generator value 2 in DH keys? Steven Pauly Pitney Bowes GMS This email message may contain confidential, proprietary and/or privileged information. It is intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s). If you have received

Re: Basic OpenSSL Question

2006-09-22 Thread Steve . Pauly
The underlying code includes the following modes: AES_ecb_encrypt AES_cbc_encrypt AES_cfb128_encrypt AES_cfb1_encrypt AES_cfb8_encrypt AES_ofb128_encrypt AES_ctr128_encrypt So CTR is in, but CWC and GCM are not. Steven Pauly Pitney Bowes GMS This email message may contain confidential,

RE: Hiding headers for OpenSSL

2006-08-21 Thread Steve . Pauly
Blocking the version number is worse than reporting stale version information. At least they can determine a minimum security level. Incorrect information cuts both ways, helping the hacker and legitimate user at the same time. Better to prefer the legitimate user's interest. SP [EMAIL

Re: BN_bn2hex(rsa-e) allways 010001

2006-04-05 Thread Steve . Pauly
The RSA_F4 parameter is what gives you the E parameter value. Specifically 65537, or 010001 in hex. Steven Pauly Pitney Bowes GMS Nagy Zoltán Márk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/05/2006 08:57 AM Please respond to openssl-users@openssl.org To

Re: struct problem

2006-03-29 Thread Steve . Pauly
The unsigned char *name and *description are pointers, not storage arrays. For this to work, you would need: struct ciphers_name { unsigned char name[NAME_LEN]; unsigned char description[DESC_LEN]; const EVP_CIPHER *cipher; unsigned int color; }; Steven Pauly Pitney Bowes GMS [EMAIL

EC_GFp_mont_method error with _EC_SECG_PRIME_160R1

2006-03-08 Thread Steve . Pauly
I'm getting a EC_R_POINT_IS_NOT_ON_CURVE when using _EC_SECG_PRIME_160R1 for the following public key: X:7B AE 41 B9 06 CF B6 FC D4 5B 8C 17 2F B8 30 59 E0 29 30 1C Y:FB 5C 39 C6 76 15 AB E4 B3 86 86 BA 8D 56 7D 49 08 A3 E8 1E Z:1 If I modify the function EC_GROUP

Re: EC_GFp_mont_method error with _EC_SECG_PRIME_160R1

2006-03-08 Thread Steve . Pauly
I had been setting the x and y coordinates with BN_bin2bn, not with EC_POINT_set_affine_coordinates_GFp . Some of the point setup had not been performed. Everything is good now. Steven Pauly Pitney Bowes GMS Nils Larsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/08/2006 12:52 PM