On 02/08/2017 09:47, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 12:38 AM, Jakob Bohm <jb-openssl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 02/08/2017 04:21, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
I'm trying to extract the low-order byte or word from a BIGNUM in
OpenSSL 1.1. We were told to use BN_bn2binpad, but its not clear to me
how to specify the location we want to extract.
For example:
const char v[] = "ffeeddccbbaa99887766554433221100";
BIGNUM n = BN_new();
if (BN_hex2bn(&n, v))
{
fprintf(stderr, "failed to parse BIGNUM\n");
exit (1);
}
I don't see how to get the low-order word 33221100, or the second to
last byte 11.
Here' the documentation but I don't see how to do it:
https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.1.0/crypto/BN_bn2binpad.html. Other
libraries, like Java, Botan and Crypto++ allow us to specify a potion
to extract from in cases like these.
How do we extract bytes or words from a BIGNUM?
Thanks in advance.
BN_bn2binpad (and it's friends) always give you *all* the bytes
in the number in a buffer of you own. You can then extract the
bytes from there.
If you care mostly about the least significant bytes, using
BN_bn2lebinpad may be easier than BN_bn2binpad, as the least
significant bytes will be first, not last, in the result.
Thanks.
It would be nice if the OpenSSL devs ate their own dogfood and
suffered that inefficient crap. I would wager that crap would change.
Jeff
Reading single bytes out of a bignum is a very rare operation
(except as part of some mathematical operation that should be
part of the bignum library).
Converting an entire bignum to/from a simple "large" int-like
variable for inclusion in various protocols and data formats is
a common operation which these functions provide.
Are you sure you are not trying to do something already provided
more directly via your "read a byte" operation?
Enjoy
Jakob
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