ECDSA keys support?

[n-rodriguez]

Hi!

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

[bensie]

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 notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi!

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

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[n-rodriguez]

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

[bensie]

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!

[mcclymont]

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