[Cryptography Team] Reading ssh pub/private keys

[Robert Withers]

It's in the Cryptography-X509 package.

What exactly is OLPC?  I keep reading that acronym.

Rob

On Mar 29, 2007, at 6:45 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> Thanks Rob, I'll try that (provided I find the  
> DSAPrivateKeyFileReader class).
>
> I'm not implementing ssh, but the OLPC happens to use that file  
> format for their per-user keys. So rather than generating our own  
> (via SecurityManager>>generateLocalKeyPair) which takes a rather  
> long time on that slow machine, I'd rather just load that.
>
> - Bert -
>
> On Mar 29, 2007, at 15:33 , Robert Withers wrote:
>
>> Bert, there are indeed Base64 encoded.  For starters, you can try:
>>
>> 	(DSAPrivateKeyFileReader fromFile: privateKeyFileName) asPrivateKey
>>
>> I am not sure about the publicKey, but you could try the same  
>> reader code.  Internally, it strips off the PEM markings (----- 
>> BEGIN DSA...and so on), the does a Base64 decode and leaves you  
>> with bytes.  The #asPrivateKey will take those bytes and do an ASN. 
>> 1 decode on them.  My point is that the PublicKey may also be ASN. 
>> 1 encoded, so you may find some traction here.
>>
>> Let me know how it goes.
>>
>> Are you implementing SSH?!
>>
>> cheers,
>> Robert
>>
>> On Mar 29, 2007, at 6:23 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> I have an ssh-format keypair and would like to extract the  
>>> (p,q,g,x) and (p,q,g,y) DSA tuples from that. The private key  
>>> looks like this:
>>>
>>> -----BEGIN DSA PRIVATE KEY-----
>>> MIIBuwIB..............XCIa3cIp
>>> -----END DSA PRIVATE KEY-----
>>>
>>> and the public key:
>>>
>>> ssh-dss AAAAB3NzaC1k.........nNEnWCasjXraVA==
>>>
>>> So this looks like Base64-encoded numbers, but how are they  
>>> encoded? The only reference I found was this:
>>>
>>> http://www.openssh.com/txt/draft-ietf-secsh-publickeyfile-02.txt
>>>
>>> But it does not detail how the "binary blob" translates to DSA  
>>> tuples.
>>>
>>> - Bert -
>>>
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