[4317] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: RSA Test
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnold G. Reinhold)
Thu Mar 11 18:25:32 1999
In-Reply-To: <199903110825.IAA09333@server.eternity.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 17:01:55 -0500
To: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>, ekr@rtfm.com
From: "Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold@world.std.com>
Cc: vin@shore.net, cryptography@c2.net, coderpunks@toad.com
At 8:25 AM +0000 3/11/99, Adam Back wrote:
>Eric Rescorla writes:
>> Vin McLellan <vin@shore.net> writes:
>> > If you are waiting for NIST to offer the sort of full crypto module
>> > validation tests that are offered to provide assurance for the
>>DSA/Fortezza
>> > version of FIPS-186(a), don't hold your breath.
>>
>> I'm not. I'd simply like to see a full set of key generation
>> procedures that allowed you to insert a seed and compare your
>> output key to the test vector. Precisely the way that FIPS-186a
>> does for DSA.
>
>I think Eric has made an excellent suggestion: having a full test
>vector including RNG is a rather good idea. Is there any chance that
>you could follow up on that at RSA labs Vin?
>
Having a standard way to get from a seed to a key pair would have other
uses besides testing. In particular it would permit someone to memorize
their secret key in the form of a passphrase that would be hashed by , say
SHA1.
Arnold Reinhold
