[openssl-users] Testing OpenSSL based solution

[Jakob Bohm]

On 12/05/2015 20:10, Salz, Rich wrote:
> You can't easily have test vectors for DSA signatures since they include a random.  Any test vector would have to include the random, and any API would have to be able to accept the random as part of the "sign" API.  Verification should be okay.
>
>

What Mr. Salz refers to by "Verification should be okay"
is probably this:

You can have test vectors in the form of known good
signatures withpublic keys listed in the test vector.
For DSA, those would be the (message, y, r, s)quads
mentioned by the OP (y is the public key, (r, s) is the
signature), dependingon his class library, it might be
possible to reformat those vectors to the formatused
by his code for real messages.

The importance of such test vectors is to detect if an
implementation is accidentally implementing a different
signature algorithm (such as accidentally appending a 0
byte to each message both during signing and
verification).  This would not be detected by signing
and verifying sample messages with random parameters.

Enjoy

Jakob
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