Re: Keys and Certificates creations

David Pierre <[email protected]> writes:

>So I wonder 512b keys are forbidden in cryptlib, or am I doing it wrong ?

512-bit keys offer no real security, so you can't use them.

>For El Gamal, the key generation works fine, but when i want to generate a
>certificate (simple certificate as described in manual p:147), I have a -26
>error code on :

ElGamal isn't defined for use with X.509, so you can't use it in a
certificate.

>And finally, with ECDSA and ECDH, I can't even create a key because :
>
>status = cryptCreateContext( cryptContext, CRYPT_UNUSED, CRYPT_ALGO_ECDSA );
>
>Fails, with a -20 error code.

To use the ECC algorithms you need to define USE_ECC when you build cryptlib.
In any case you won't be able to create a certificate for ECDH because it's a
key-agreement algorithm only.

Peter.

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