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[Help-gnutls] Re: Generating an RSA key
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Simon Josefsson |
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[Help-gnutls] Re: Generating an RSA key |
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Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:17:36 +0100 |
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Brad Hards <address@hidden> writes:
> I'm trying to write some code that generates RSA keys (given either the raw
> parameters, and also given the exponent and bit size), and then extract
> various things (bit size, public key), and some I/O in DER and PEM formats.
>
> I'd prefer it if I could avoid learning the sexp stuff used in libgcrypt.
> However I can't find the right part of the API.
>
> Does anyone have a suggestion or example code that they would be willing to
> share?
Hi! I'm not aware of any code that does exactly what you want,
although look in lib/x509/privkey.c for some functions that converts
to and from raw RSA keys to PKCS#1 format.
In particular, perhaps gnutls_x509_privkey_export_rsa_raw() and
gnutls_x509_privkey_import_rsa_raw() does something similar to what
you want?
To generate the key, you can use gnutls_x509_privkey_generate() as a
basis for your code, and replace the call to
_gnutls_rsa_generate_params() with a call to your own function that
generates the same values. They use the libgcrypt mpi_t type, but you
wouldn't have to use the sexp stuff.
Just some ideas..
/Simon