[openssl-dev] [openssl-users] pkeyutl does not invoke hash?

Blumenthal, Uri - 0553 - MITLL uri at ll.mit.edu
Thu Jan 14 21:55:55 UTC 2016


On 1/14/16, 16:51 , "openssl-dev on behalf of Dr. Stephen Henson"
<openssl-dev-bounces at openssl.org on behalf of steve at openssl.org> wrote:

>On Thu, Jan 14, 2016, Salz, Rich wrote:
>
>> Okay, how about this.  First, remove the NOTES subhead.  Add this to
>>the end of the first paragraph:
>> 
>> 	This program does not hash the input data and requires the input data
>> 	to be of the proper size, and must not be greater than the size of
>> 	the public key field or modulus.  See dgst(1) for a unified
>> 	Interace.
>> 
>
>The comment about the public key field or modulus is only true for some
>public
>key algorithms (e.g. RSA).

Public key modulus would be true for RSA and DSA. Field would be true for
ECDSA (and I daresay EdDSA). What other signatures do we have?
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