Re: Elliptic Curve cryptography

2003-06-02 Thread Henrik N. Rask
> > Specifically i was wondering if there exists > > functions for simple public/private encryption/decryption similar to > > RSA_public_encrypt() and RSA_private_decrypt(). > > No. The OpenSSL elliptic curve implementation currently > supports only the basic arithmetic functions for elliptic cur

Re: Elliptic Curve cryptography

2003-06-02 Thread Nils Larsch
On Sunday 01 June 2003 20:00, Henrik N. Rask wrote: > I am trying to figure out exactly how much support for elliptic curve > cryptography exists in the 0.9.8 snapshots (the lack of documentation is > making this a bit difficult). Hopefully this will change when 0.9.8 is released :-) > Specifical

Re: Elliptic Curve cryptography

2003-06-02 Thread Frank
Well I'm fumbling my way through this right now myself. Nils is the expert (he wrote it). but look in the crypto/ecdsh directory and look at the test programs. They might help. Frank "Henrik N. Rask" wrote: > I am trying to figure out exactly how much support for elliptic curve > cryptography e