Re: Interoperation with OpenSSL

Florian Weimer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.encryption.cryptlib
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* Peter Gutmann:

> 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.

By the way, do PKCS#7 or CMS support operations on streams?

(I know that PGP only supports it for encoding.  For decoding, you
need to defer side effects until you've verified the MDC at the end of
the message, which somewhat cumbersome.)

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