Re: BIT STRING Encoding with ECDSA-384 1 byte too long

2006-12-29 Thread Nils Larsch
Schifman, Jon wrote: I'm using OpenSSL 0.9.8d to work on generating X.509 certificates for use with ECDSA using the SECP384R1 curve. When I generate a certificate, the public key created is 97 bytes, but I know it should be 96 bytes (2 384 bit parameters for the x,y points on the curve). It show

BIT STRING Encoding with ECDSA-384 1 byte too long

2006-12-28 Thread Schifman, Jon
I'm using OpenSSL 0.9.8d to work on generating X.509 certificates for use with ECDSA using the SECP384R1 curve. When I generate a certificate, the public key created is 97 bytes, but I know it should be 96 bytes (2 384 bit parameters for the x,y points on the curve). It shows up as 97 bytes when I