Anthony,
I am not a cryptographer, nor do I play one on TV; however I have read papers that talk about models of doing this, I filed these works under the category of "neat" because of the applicability limitations and noted security risks; with that said I never looked into it in great detail myself. Here is a link I remembered running across recently talking about this model: http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/1662/how-can-one-securely-generate -an-asymmetric-key-pair-from-a-short-passphrase Ryan From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org [mailto:owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org] On Behalf Of anthony berglas Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 7:38 PM To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: Re: Pass phrase based public/private key generation Hello Jeff, Thanks for that. But IDE still needs a server and binary secrets to be held. I just want a simple pass phrase based scheme. It is odd that this is not more commonplace. Anthony On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:53 PM, anthony berglas <anth...@berglas.org> wrote:You might want to read about identity based encryption before making the jump to 'passphrase -> private key'. Jeff ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org -- Dr Anthony Berglas, anth...@berglas.org Mobile: +61 4 4838 8874 Just because it is possible to push twigs along the ground with ones nose does not necessarily mean that that is the best way to collect firewood.
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