[openssl-users] engine interface for genrsa

[William Roberts]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 2:55 PM, Richard Levitte <levitte at openssl.org> wrote:
> In message <CAFftDdqWPXq1+Mo9_6J0EzhZ4uwg5QC=R5fx8N1j=QYchA8+YQ at mail.gmail.com> on Fri, 13 Apr 2018 09:17:28 -0700, William Roberts <bill.c.roberts at gmail.com> said:
>
> bill.c.roberts> I am currently working on writing an openssl engine
> bill.c.roberts> to interface with a piece of hardware.
> bill.c.roberts>
> bill.c.roberts> I am trying to understand how to implement
> bill.c.roberts> rsa key generation, where the private key
> bill.c.roberts> bytes would not be available.
> bill.c.roberts>
> bill.c.roberts> I am currently invoking the
> bill.c.roberts> command:
> bill.c.roberts>
> bill.c.roberts> openssl genrsa -engine foo
> bill.c.roberts>
> bill.c.roberts> Which is calling my callback for RSA keygen, registered via ENGINE_set_RSA()
> bill.c.roberts> and I set the flags: RSA_FLAG_EXT_PKEY.
> bill.c.roberts>
> bill.c.roberts> However, genrsa app seems to want rsa->e set here:
> bill.c.roberts> https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/OpenSSL_1_0_2g/apps/genrsa.c#L291
> bill.c.roberts>
> bill.c.roberts> I can't find documentation on how to handle the keygen interface
> bill.c.roberts> for RSA.
> bill.c.roberts>
> bill.c.roberts> Can someone point me in the right direction?
>
> e and n are public components of any RSA key pair (and RSA structure
> in OpenSSL).  You *must* make them available.  The rest of the numbers
> are private and do not need to be part of the RSA structure that
> OpenSSL handles.

Thanks. I went and read the RSA page on Wikipedia, and sure enough it
has what common meanings of what all the single letter variables
are in the RSA struct.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem)

>
> Cheers,
> Richard
>
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