Subject: Re: userauth_publickey_fromfile() fails occasionally for no reason

Re: userauth_publickey_fromfile() fails occasionally for no reason

From: Peter Stuge <peter_at_stuge.se>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:15:18 +0100

Simon Josefsson wrote:
> > I couldn't find much MPI documentation so it may not be correct
> > at all. :\
>
> Just checking, you know about the libgcrypt manual?
>
> http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gcrypt/

Yes. It lists functions but fairly little else.. :\

In particular, gcry_sexp_nth_mpi() doesn't describe the int mpifmt
parameter. It seems from the libgcrypt source code that this is
actually an enum gcry_mpi_format, but the manual also doesn't say how
to learn what to pass for that parameter. The sexp in question comes
from gcry_pk_sign() but that also says nothing about how MPIs are
stored in the result.. I looked at dsa.c in libgcrypt source and
guessed..

//Peter
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