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DSA reference code?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rodney Thayer)
Thu Jul 10 16:22:15 1997
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 09:30:51 -0400
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: Rodney Thayer <rodney@sabletech.com>
I would like to know what DSA (that's the proper term, right? Not DSS)
reference implementations are out there. In participating in the IETF PKIX
discussions on this I'm trying to measure the gap between theory and
practice. I did some fishing around and I find only one 'C' DSA
implementation, "Cryptolib" from AT&T (which is sitting on some site in
Italy). I suspect Schneier's disk set has DSA, too, but I haven't bought a
copy of that (yet.)
I am just trying to set up some reference code, to do timings and survey
whether people have implemented 'precomputation' and see how hard it is in
practice to do encryption, as suggested in Schneier's book. BSAFE seems to
not give enough control through the API to do encryption, and I don't know
if they do the precomputation [presumably one might determine that by
checking the source.]
I am aware of the recent changes in SSLEAY to add support for this but I
don't know if he exposed the interfaces in such a way as to extract the
code for other purposes.
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