Re: Interoperation with OpenSSL

Peter Gutmann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.encryption.cryptlib
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Stephan <[email protected]> writes:

>I'm using Cryptlib along with OpenSSL and have begun interop testing. Is it
>reasonable to expect Cryptlib and OpenSSL to be interchangable when
>de/encrypting with one and the other tool?

Only if a standard format is used.  OpenSSL (as you're using it) is using an
undocumented homebrew data format that isn't compatible with anything else in
existence.  To interoperate with anything else you need to use a standards-
conformant format like PKCS #7, CMS, or PGP.

(Thanks for the detailed diagnostics, that makes it much easier to spot the
problem).

Peter.

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