crypto for the average programmer
Whyte, William
WWhyte at ntru.com
Wed Dec 14 14:16:10 EST 2005
> On 12/14/05, Peter Gutmann <pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> > I don't know if there's any site tracking this, but (as the
> tutorial says) you
> > can either go with PKCS #1 (the de facto standard, easy to
> implement and
> > widely used) ...
>
> Actually, I'm embarassed to admit this but I've seen PKCS before but
> never with enough context to know what it was; I thought it was some
> kind of RSA proprietary mumbo-jumbo. But, oh dear, it involves ASN.1.
> That rules out use by the layperson. I've run into ASN.1 before with
> regard to SNMP, and it struck me as infinitely more complex than
> anything I'd ever need to query packet counts on my router.
Have a look at PKCS#1. There's hardly any ASN.1 in it at all and
the structures are relatively simple. There's also a PKCS examples
document that talks you through it.
William
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