Re: Interoperation with OpenSSL
Peter Gutmann <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.encryption.cryptlib |
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Stephan <[email protected]> writes: >On Sun., Aug. 23, 2009, Peter GUTMANN wrote: >>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. > >...but as far as I know, all three PKCS #7, CMS, and PHP require certificates >to work. None of them require certificates (are you going to tell Phil that his PGP needs certificates in order to work? :-). >I want to simply encode and decode using a static password. All of these formats support password-based encryption. No certificates are necessary. Peter. _______________________________________________ Cryptlib mailing list [email protected] via Mail: [email protected] Archive: ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/crypt/cryptlib/archives/ http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.cryptlib Posts from non-subscribed addresses are blocked to prevent spam, please subscribe in order to post messages.