[PATCH] curve25519-sha256 at libssh.org key exchange proposal

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Sat Nov 2 22:13:56 EST 2013


On Sat, 2 Nov 2013, Markus Friedl wrote:

> if I understand http://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git/commit/?id=4cb6afcbd43ab503d4c3d3054b96a1492605ea8d
> correctly, then the shared secret is encoded as a bignum,
> probably because the rest of the code assumes it's a bignum
> (e.g. for key derivation, etc). however, the DH public keys
> are always encoded as strings (both in my patches and
> in the libssh.org code).

You're right - sorry I misread.

-d


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