FYI ECC was added to Windows VISTA,

Ryan Hurst


Sent from my phone, please forgive the brevity.

On Jan 30, 2013, at 5:51 AM, "Dr. Stephen Henson" <st...@openssl.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013, cellecial wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I write some code to generate an ECC certificate, it works partly.
>> The certificate can be parsed by IE but prompt "signature corrupt".
> 
> Are you sure that version of Windows supports ECC cerrificates?
> 
>> So I dump the cert using X509_print_fp(),here is the information:
>> 
>> /*=============================================*/
>> Certificate:
>>    Data:
>>        Version: 1 (0x0)
>>        Serial Number: 0 (0x0)
>>    Signature Algorithm: ecdsa-with-SHA1
>>        Issuer: C=AU, ST=SS, L=LL, O=LONG, OU=DEV,
>> CN=CA/emailAddress=ad...@long.com
>>        Validity
>>            Not Before: Jan 29 07:39:02 2013 GMT
>>            Not After : Jan 29 07:39:02 2014 GMT
>>        Subject: C=AU, ST=SS, L=LL, O=LONG, OU=DEV,
>> CN=CA/emailAddress=ad...@long.com
>>        Subject Public Key Info:
>>            Public Key Algorithm: id-ecPublicKey
>>                Public-Key: (256 bit)
>>                pub:
>>                    04:c6:f8:32:9a:99:ff:8f:66:f4:05:57:33:86:b1:
>>                    6d:18:2b:71:38:35:67:f9:37:b6:3b:e7:fc:26:dc:
>>                    9b:bc:40:76:64:53:ef:b4:1d:18:24:79:bc:93:ab:
>>                    2f:5d:50:4c:63:fb:e6:4c:d5:2e:44:8b:f2:05:e9:
>>                    4c:ca:4c:3d:49
>>                Field Type: prime-field
>>                Prime:
>>                    00:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:00:00:01:00:00:00:00:00:00:
>>                    00:00:00:00:00:00:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:
>>                    ff:ff:ff
>>                A:
>>                    00:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:00:00:01:00:00:00:00:00:00:
>>                    00:00:00:00:00:00:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:
>>                    ff:ff:fc
>>                B:
>>                    5a:c6:35:d8:aa:3a:93:e7:b3:eb:bd:55:76:98:86:
>>                    bc:65:1d:06:b0:cc:53:b0:f6:3b:ce:3c:3e:27:d2:
>>                    60:4b
>>                Generator (uncompressed):
>>                    04:6b:17:d1:f2:e1:2c:42:47:f8:bc:e6:e5:63:a4:
>>                    40:f2:77:03:7d:81:2d:eb:33:a0:f4:a1:39:45:d8:
>>                    98:c2:96:4f:e3:42:e2:fe:1a:7f:9b:8e:e7:eb:4a:
>>                    7c:0f:9e:16:2b:ce:33:57:6b:31:5e:ce:cb:b6:40:
>>                    68:37:bf:51:f5
>>                Order:
>>                    00:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:00:00:00:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:
>>                    ff:ff:bc:e6:fa:ad:a7:17:9e:84:f3:b9:ca:c2:fc:
>>                    63:25:51
>>                Cofactor:  1 (0x1)
>>                Seed:
>>                    c4:9d:36:08:86:e7:04:93:6a:66:78:e1:13:9d:26:
>>                    b7:81:9f:7e:90
>>    Signature Algorithm: ecdsa-with-SHA1
>>         30:45:02:20:1f:7a:53:12:6f:7f:79:f8:8a:f8:15:dd:f0:3a:
>>         b4:cd:4e:46:1d:f3:bd:89:53:33:88:ab:c6:dc:7f:d8:4b:33:
>>         02:21:00:ca:87:43:6b:35:8f:44:db:ee:56:2a:52:4a:86:8c:
>>         f4:14:b3:ae:71:49:e5:1f:94:67:a5:2a:e2:c9:27:22:90
>> 
>> /*=============================================*/
>> As you can see, there are some extra info in "Public Key Info" section.
>> I thought I know the reason, here is my origin code snippet:
> 
> That extra info is the default way the EC key is currently encoded by OpenSSL:
> explicitly giving all the EC curve details. 
> 
> If you want it to just use the curve name instead you have to call: 
> 
> EC_KEY_set_asn1_flag(eckey, OPENSSL_EC_NAMED_CURVE);
> 
> Steve.
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