Re: ECDSA signature verification

2009-01-23 Thread Emanuele Cesena
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 11:22 +, Young, Alistair wrote: * is it possible to define our own curves (rather than using one of the predefined curves)? if you want to play with your EC, check crypto/ec/ectest.c if you want to add a new curve to openssl, have a look at crypto/ec/ec_curve.c,

RE: ECDSA signature verification

2009-01-23 Thread Young, Alistair
ourselves which links to the FIPS library. Regards, Alistair. -Original Message- From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org [mailto:owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org] On Behalf Of Emanuele Cesena Sent: 23 January 2009 08:24 To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: Re: ECDSA signature verification

RE: ECDSA signature verification

2009-01-23 Thread Young, Alistair
- is there an extra 'not' in this statement?), but that perhaps doesn't cover ECDSA. Alistair. -Original Message- From: Young, Alistair Sent: 23 January 2009 10:13 To: 'openssl-users@openssl.org' Subject: RE: ECDSA signature verification Thank you, Emanuele. We really need to use the FIPS

RE: ECDSA signature verification

2009-01-23 Thread Emanuele Cesena
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 10:13 +, Young, Alistair wrote: We really need to use the FIPS version of OpenSSL, so updating the code isn't a possiblity. ah ok, so maybe you can just skip EVP. bye! -- Emanuele Cesena emanuele.ces...@gmail.com http://ecesena.dyndns.org Il corpo non ha ideali

Re: ECDSA signature verification

2009-01-23 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009, Young, Alistair wrote: ... though I notice that the Security Policy document does not explicitly mention ECDSA in the table of FIPS approved algorithms. It does mention DSA with 1024-bit keys (but has a confusing footnote which states that DSA supports a key size of

RE: ECDSA signature verification

2009-01-23 Thread Young, Alistair
-Original Message- From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org [mailto:owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org] On Behalf Of Dr. Stephen Henson Sent: 23 January 2009 13:07 To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: Re: ECDSA signature verification On Fri, Jan 23, 2009, Young, Alistair wrote