Howto read a mpi point from buffer?

[Werner Koch]

On Sat, 10 Jun 2017 19:55, stefbon at gmail.com said:

> The file I want to read is the public key stored by openssh, where the "q"
> (elliptic curve point octet string) of the key:
>
> string "ed25519"
> string "q"

I suggest to read gnupg/agent/command-ssh.c.  In particular the
functions ssh_receive_key and stream_read_blob.  The trick here is that
you don't read a proper MPI but merely use the MPI object to store an
opaque value - the ECC crypto function can handle them.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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