On Fri, Mar 05, 2004, Claus Nagel wrote: > > It follows the RFC3280 recommendation in 4.2.1.2 (1): > > > > The keyIdentifier is composed of the 160-bit SHA-1 hash of the > > value of the BIT STRING subjectPublicKey (excluding the tag, > > length, and number of unused bits). > > thanks. sorry, i missed that point while reading. well i'm not exactly > sure... would hashing the DER encoded ASN.1 RSAPublicKey object sufficient for > this recommandation? if not, how do i know, which bits are unused? >
Since for an RSA key the subjectPublicKey field contains a DER RSAPublicKey structure yes that would produce the same result. Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. Email, S/MIME and PGP keys: see homepage OpenSSL project core developer and freelance consultant. Funding needed! Details on homepage. Homepage: http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
