Support for ecdsa certs

Matt Johnston matt at ucc.asn.au
Wed Aug 24 20:22:47 WST 2011


It's a feature I'd like to add, I'll take a look at how much
is involved and get back to you off-list.

Cheers,
Matt

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 01:03:11PM +0100, Ed W wrote:
> Hi, assuming what you say isn't a complete blocker - are you open to
> "sponsorship" to add it as a feature?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Ed W
> 
> 
> On 24/08/2011 12:54, Matt Johnston wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Sorry for the delayed reply. I have a very brief look at it.
> > The actual SSH protocol parts probably aren't too hard to
> > implement, just some similar bits to the existing code in
> > *kex.c and dsa.c.  However I don't know how good
> > libtomcrypt and libtommath's ECC support is, so possibly
> > that could be a problem. 
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Matt
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 10:37:54AM +0100, Ed W wrote:
> >> Hi, What is required to extend dropbear to support ecdsa certificates -
> >> I'm mainly interested in the client support, but server support would be
> >> nice also?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Ed W
> 


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