On Thursday 30 October 2003 08:02, Alicia da Conceicao wrote: > Greetings: > > I am working on making some embedded encryption code interop with > openssl. To that end, I would appreciate if someone could please > outline step-by-step how a pass-phase provided in a password > callback is converted into an encryption key for a symmetric > cipher. Whatever means openssl uses, it is not a simple hashing, > since the commonly used digests only provide 128-160 bits per > hash, and 168 bits is needed for ciphers like 3DES (Triple-DES).
take a look at EVP_BytesToKey (crypto/evp/evp_key.c). Nils ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
