Tag Archives: DSA

Linux Kernel DSA and Provenance Release

Posted on August 21, 2015 by daveti

Linux Provenance kernel (2.6.32) and tools for CentOS and RedHat Enterprise Linux https://github.com/daveti/prov-kernel https://github.com/daveti/prov-tools Linux kernel crypto – DSA https://github.com/daveti/kdsa During the development on kernel 2.6.32, we found a bug in mpi-pow.c which failed DSA.  The patch file has been included … Continue reading →

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Hack Go – generate non-FIPS DSA key parameters using hacked Go compiler

Posted on October 15, 2014 by daveti

Common DSA key parameter generation follow FIPS 186-3, which requires (L, N) bits length for P and Q, where L is at least 1024 and N is at least 160. However, sometimes we may want non-FIPS (L, N), for example, … Continue reading →

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