[openssl-users] Anecdotes of OpenSSL China Tour

2018-02-26 Thread Paul Yang
Hi there, Some people may know that five then OMC members had a tour in China last September. You can find some official media articles reporting the event in Tim’s blogs: https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2017/09/28/china/ and https://www.

Re: [openssl-users] Is EVP_BytesToKey() still recommended ?

2018-02-26 Thread Matt Caswell
On 26/02/18 01:15, pratyush parimal wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm trying to find a way to convert a string password to an AES-256 > encryption key. I came across EVP_BytesToKey(), but the man-page says at > the end: > > "Newer applications should use a more modern algorithm such as PBKDF2 as >

[openssl-users] Is EVP_BytesToKey() still recommended ?

2018-02-26 Thread pratyush parimal
Hi everyone, I'm trying to find a way to convert a string password to an AES-256 encryption key. I came across EVP_BytesToKey(), but the man-page says at the end: "Newer applications should use a more modern algorithm such as PBKDF2 as defined in PKCS#5v2.1 and provided by PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC". Do