Re: Parameters for EC key generation

2009-07-21 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:46, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009, Fred Keet wrote: >> At this point I've got code that generates the ec keys from the sect163k1 >> curve, and then signs a block of data. When I compare this with the ecsign >> utility they provide (apparently built on M

Re: Parameters for EC key generation

2009-07-21 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009, Fred Keet wrote: > > At this point I've got code that generates the ec keys from the sect163k1 > curve, and then signs a block of data. When I compare this with the ecsign > utility they provide (apparently built on Miracl) the two signatures do not > match, so it seems th

Re: Parameters for EC key generation

2009-07-21 Thread Fred Keet
Mike Frysinger wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 09:51, Fred Keet wrote: I'm in the process of writing an application that signs binary data for loading onto a Analog Devices BlackFin microprocessor. These chips have "built in" support for verification of code. The chip gets loaded with the EC p

Re: Parameters for EC key generation

2009-07-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 09:51, Fred Keet wrote: > I'm in the process of writing an application that signs binary data for > loading > onto a Analog Devices BlackFin microprocessor. These chips have "built in" > support for verification of code. The chip gets loaded with the EC public > key, > and t

Parameters for EC key generation

2009-07-20 Thread Fred Keet
I'm in the process of writing an application that signs binary data for loading onto a Analog Devices BlackFin microprocessor. These chips have "built in" support for verification of code. The chip gets loaded with the EC public key, and then you just update the code and signature on every upda