[OTR-dev] RSA signatures again

[Paul Wouters]

On Thu, 15 Aug 2013, Timo Sirainen wrote:

Ian, what's your take on this? Should we support it?

If so, I'd like to add the keytype number for RSA in the upcoming OTR
draft.

Paul

> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 15:42:50
> From: Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>
> To: otr-dev at lists.cypherpunks.ca
> Subject: Re: [OTR-dev] RSA signatures again
> 
> On 15.8.2013, at 19.00, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>
>> I was planning to use libotr for a project where I'd need both "normal" asymmetric encryption (RSA probably) and OTR-like encryption. The problem is that I was hoping to use a single public key for both uses, but OTR uses only DSA and I can't do encryption with it. My next thought was to modify libotr to support RSA signatures as well, but since I'm not really a crypto expert I thought I'd ask here first if that's even a good idea? Would it be as simple as changing the DSA-specific code to RSA or are there some deeper problems to solve as well?
>
> At least it seems to work..
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