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Re: rsa configuration
"Sridhar J" <sridharj@future.futsoft.com> writes:
> Hi ,
> rsa public key is represented as {modulus ,exponent} , my question
> is should I configure both
> modulus and exponent (no certificates in my implementation )
> . I have seen in cisco router that it has option of configuring
> rsa public key as just a string not seperately as mod and exponent , I
> wonder how cisco router
> is splitting that key (into mod and exponent)
> any pointer would be of great help
>
How you implement it is up to you. Different implementations store
the information differently. For example, FreeS/WAN stores an RSA key
as a single string of hex digits, first the exponent and then the
modulus, with length encodings to split the two. How you store it locally
is up to you.
-derek
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