Re: Question about DSA private keys - Quick replies appreciated!

2010-03-10 Thread Anand Giriraj
SSL's default DSA PKCS#8 private key format complies with this standard. " *Are the private keys for DSA (generated using the openssl API i mention in my emails below) encoded using any of the PKCS formats?. Is it PKCS8?* Thanks -AG On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Anand Giriraj wrote: &g

Re: Question about DSA private keys - Quick replies appreciated!

2010-03-06 Thread Anand Giriraj
Sorry there was a small typo s/DSA_generate_keys/DSA_generate_key Could I possibly use EVP_PKEY2PKCS8() api for the encoding? Regards -AG On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Anand Giriraj wrote: > Hi Folks. > If I generate DSA private key using the following commands: > > DSA_gen

Question about DSA private keys - Quick replies appreciated!

2010-03-06 Thread Anand Giriraj
Hi Folks. If I generate DSA private key using the following commands: DSA_generate_params() DSA_generate_keys() The resulting private keys are not encoded using any of the PKCS formats, right?. If wrong, which format are they encoded in?. Would it be appropriate to encode them in PKCS8?. And if