Re: [woes] Naked Public Key, was: RE: Proposed charter, post-Quebec edition
Leif Johansson <leifj@mnt.se> Sat, 06 August 2011 11:42 UTC
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/05/2011 06:43 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote: > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Leif Johansson <leifj@mnt.se> wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> >>>> Just doing the math yourself, from scratch, is pretty easy if you have the >>>> bare key. It's nigh-on trivial if you have a bigint library. Solution: >>>> don't use OpenSSL. I propose we don't get bogged down in the certificate >>>> problem for the moment. >>> >>> Cryptographer's warning: do not do this. Hard hat area ahead. >>> >> >> That is advice for implementors and not for spec writers, right? > > Correct. Getting the implementation right is tricky. So in that case I still support having the spec explain (very carefully) how you do "raw keys" - i.e keys with no intrinsic semantics - and then also adding the cryptographers caveat to that. Cheers Leif -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk49KNAACgkQ8Jx8FtbMZnegGwCePWbm6onumygWk92zBNI2Kbhf ecMAn16qCkD9uC+YpiyxpMKOT7oI0+4m =ICmK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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