[openssl-users] What is the need for 0x00 byte prefix in pubkey and prime of a static DH key pair?

Matt Caswell matt at openssl.org
Fri Nov 30 08:26:47 UTC 2018



On 30/11/2018 05:26, M K Saravanan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When I create static DH key pair using openssl, why the public key and
> prime contains the prefix 0x00 byte?

Because otherwise those numbers would be treated as negative (due to the most
significant bit being set) which is incorrect.

Matt


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