[Opendnssec-develop] hsm-toolkit questions

Rick van Rein rick at openfortress.nl
Wed Mar 11 14:22:00 UTC 2009


John,

Steering away from the code, I am getting more thoughts.

> here is a patch to hsm-toolkit to print a hash of the public key.  
> Before I finish it and submit it - can anyone see any problems?

You did not start by hashing the algorithm identifier, which makes
more sense in the light that RSA won't be around forever.

It's not a major thing though -- as CKA_ID is not a security thing.

I wonder if there is a reason not simply to adhere to the ASN.1 encoding
and hashing that.  It may offer better integration with existing tools.

-Rick



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