Re: Pass phrase based public/private key generation

2012-02-15 Thread anthony berglas
y-generate-an-asymmetric-key-pair-from-a-short-passphrase > > > ** ** > > Ryan > > *From:* owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org [mailto: > owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org] *On Behalf Of *anthony berglas > *Sent:* Tuesday, February 14, 2012 7:38 PM > *To:* ope

RE: Pass phrase based public/private key generation

2012-02-15 Thread Ryan Hurst
openssl-us...@openssl.org] On Behalf Of anthony berglas Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 7:38 PM To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: Re: Pass phrase based public/private key generation Hello Jeff, Thanks for that. But IDE still needs a server and binary secrets to be held. I just want a s

Re: Pass phrase based public/private key generation

2012-02-14 Thread anthony berglas
Hello Jeff, Thanks for that. But IDE still needs a server and binary secrets to be held. I just want a simple pass phrase based scheme. It is odd that this is not more commonplace. Anthony On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:53 PM, anthony be

Re: Pass phrase based public/private key generation

2012-02-14 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:53 PM, anthony berglas wrote: > Hello All, > > I want to set up a simple system in which the private key is derived > entirely from a pass phrase. > > I.e. the pass phrase provides all the "Entropy" that is used.  This means > that the private key can be regenerated from

Pass phrase based public/private key generation

2012-02-14 Thread anthony berglas
Hello All, I want to set up a simple system in which the private key is derived entirely from a pass phrase. I.e. the pass phrase provides all the "Entropy" that is used. This means that the private key can be regenerated from the pass phrase at any time, without needing to maintain a secure key