On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 11:03, Tomas Mraz <tomas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 2022-03-14 at 08:58 -0300, Richard Dymond wrote:
> By the way, the reason I need to get the 'r' and 's' values from the
> DSA signature is that I am encoding them one after the other as 160-
> bit unsigned integers, in network byte order, as required by SSH and
> described in section 6.6 of RFC 4253 (dss_signature_blob)[1]. To do
> this encoding I am calling BN_bn2bin() twice to write 'r' followed by
> 's' at the appropriate locations in a 40-byte buffer. By any chance,
> does OpenSSL 3.0 provide any support for encoding a DSA signature
> like this from a DSA_SIG (i.e. without having to extract 'r' and 's'
> first and then use BN_bn2bin())?
No, there is no such function. However there is not much overhead in
doing the two BN_bn2bin calls (should those be BN_bn2binpad actually?)
once you already have a DSA_SIG object.
OK, I suppose that was hoping for too much. But thanks for the tip regarding BN_bn2binpad v. BN_bn2bin - that does simplify the code a little more.
Richard
