In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 7 Jul 2004 20:21:34 -0700, Ben Weintraub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
orinjus> Hello, orinjus> I am using EVP_BytesToKey() in order to generate a key from a password orinjus> and a random salt, and reading through the documentation for the orinjus> function at http://www.openssl.org/docs/crypto/EVP_BytesToKey.html , orinjus> I noticed it says: orinjus> orinjus> Newer applications should use more standard algorithms such as PKCS#5 orinjus> v2.0 for key derivation. orinjus> orinjus> But doesn't say if this is possible in OpenSSL. So my question is, is orinjus> there an implementation of PKCS#5 v2.0 in OpenSSL, or will I have to orinjus> write my own? PKCS5_v2_PBE_keyivgen(), declared in <openssl/evp.h>. Unfortunately, it is undocumented, for now. You can also use PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC_SHA1(), declared in the same header file (and also undocumented...). ----- Please consider sponsoring my work on free software. See http://www.free.lp.se/sponsoring.html for details. -- Richard Levitte \ Tunnlandsvägen 52 \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ S-168 36 BROMMA \ T: +46-708-26 53 44 \ SWEDEN \ Procurator Odiosus Ex Infernis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the OpenSSL development team: http://www.openssl.org/ Unsolicited commercial email is subject to an archival fee of $400. See <http://www.stacken.kth.se/~levitte/mail/> for more info. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
