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Re: Public Key Encryption Authentication

To: IP Security List <ipsec@lists.tislabs.com>
Subject: Re: Public Key Encryption Authentication
From: Henry Spencer <henry@spsystems.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 13:38:34 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <199911181511.KAA04134@lists.tislabs.com>
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On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Kim Edwards wrote:
> Is anyone using this authentication method in their implementations?
> Assuming you are using RSA public keys, what key format does your
> interface accept? Do you enter the raw RSA key ( i.e. public modulus n
> with the public exponent e concatenated ) in hex format? Or do you enter
> the RSA key encoded with ASN.1?

Reading RFC 2537 section 2 (encoding of RSA public keys) and RFC 2535
section 7.1 (ASCII representation of KEY records) will be informative. 

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry@spsystems.net
                                                     (henry@zoo.toronto.edu)

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Public Key Encryption Authentication

From: "Kim Edwards" <kimed@nortelnetworks.com>

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