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bensie commented on June 21, 2024

ECDSA keys support?

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bensie commented on June 21, 2024

Not yet, but I will look into adding it! Pull requests are also welcome if
you get to it first.

On Friday, March 21, 2014, Nicolas [email protected] wrote:

Hi!

Does it support ECDSA key format? At least for public key validation?

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com//issues/15
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n-rodriguez commented on June 21, 2024

Thanks for your quick answer :)
But I think I've found what I was looking for : load_data_public_key

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bensie commented on June 21, 2024

OpenSSL doesn't provide a way to generate ECDSA keys from what I can tell, making this non-trivial to implement and fully support using pure Ruby.

I'll keep an eye out for other ways of generating, but for now this is off the table.

Glad you were able to find a workaround!

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mcclymont commented on June 21, 2024

I think it is possible to generate an elliptic curve key with the OpenSSL binding, but it's not well documented at all. There is an instance method 'generate_key' but I'm not sure exactly how to use it.

Interestingly, Ruby 2.4.0 has a new method on OpenSSL::PKey::EC 'generate' which may make things easier:
http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.4.0/libdoc/openssl/rdoc/OpenSSL/PKey/EC.html

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