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Re: DSA reference code?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Mon Jul 14 11:57:53 1997

From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970710093051.007da100@pop3.pn.com> from Rodney Thayer at "Jul 10, 97 09:30:51 am"
To: rodney@sabletech.com (Rodney Thayer)
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 07:14:27 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: cryptography@c2.net

Rodney Thayer wrote:
| 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.)

Crypto++ has it (C++), as does Python.  

OBPlug--I pulled this from my list of free crypto libraries at
www.homeport.org/~adam/crypto 

Adam


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