On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 04:21:18AM -0800, Ramkumar Ganapathy wrote:
>
> I am trying to use the OpenSSL crypto C libraries to generate symmetric and
> assymetric keys. This is part of development of a key management server. The
> library as such do not have any functions for symmetric key generation. That
> is, all the "generate_key" functions are based out of assymetric crypto
> algorithms. Wheras I see functions in the JCE(java cryptographic extension)
> and the likes that has symmetric key generation utilities.
>
> Does OpenSSL support what I am looking for? Any pointer to this will be much
> appreciated!
Symmetric keys are just an array of random bytes of the right
length. OpenSSL includes a PRNG interface seeded by external entropy
sources (often /dev/urandom).
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Viktor.
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