Marc Aymerich <glicer...@gmail.com> writes:
> Thank you very much Piet, > I'm just starting to grasp these cryptography related concepts and your code > is helping me a lot to understand how to handle these keys in a low level. > > I'm updating my code incorporating your new contribution! > > Just to let you know, during my previous research I had found a python-Crypto > related solution that also uses DER and ASN.1 [1], but it uses a different > approach (I guess). I suspect that this approach is also possible with > M2Crypto because it has a method for constructing RSA keys [2]. > > [1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/10574723 > [2] > http://www.heikkitoivonen.net/m2crypto/api/M2Crypto.RSA-module.html#new_pub_key > new_pub_key could be used but then you would have to do an ASN.1 parse of the DER format of your key to get the n and e values. AFAICT M2Crypto doesn't have methods to do this, so you would need to use one of the python ASN.1 libraries (or write that part yourself). -- Piet van Oostrum <p...@vanoostrum.org> WWW: http://pietvanoostrum.com/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
