[Openswan Users] Allowed chars in RSA key?

[Nick]

Thanks!

> On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Nick wrote:
>
>> I am making an interface for the ipsec config files, and I need to find
>> out what characters are allowed to be in the rsa key for input
>> validation.
>>  I see 0-9, a-z, A-Z, +, and / in my key, but I don't know if others
>> should be allowed.
>
> From the man page:
>
> the left participant's public  key  for  RSA signature authentication, in
> RFC 2537 format using ipsec_ttodata(3)
>
> IPSEC_TTODATA(3)                                 IPSEC_TTODATA(3)
>
> NAME
>        ipsec  ttodata,  datatot  - convert binary data bytes from
>        and to text formats
>
> DESCRIPTION
>        Ttodata, ttodatav, and datatot  convert  arbitrary  binary
>        data  (e.g. encryption or authentication keys) from and to
>        more-or-less human-readable text formats.
>
>        Currently supported formats are hexadecimal,  base64,  and
>        characters.
>
> [...]
>
>        A  base64  text  value begins with a 0s (or 0S) prefix and
>        continues with four-digit groups of base64 digits (A-Z, a-
>        z,  0-9, +, and /), each group encoding the value of three
>        binary bytes as described in section 6.8 of RFC 2045.   If
>        flags  has  the  TTODATAV_IGNORESPACE  bit  on, blanks are
>        ignore (after the prefix).  Note that the last one or  two
>        digits  of  a base64 group can be = to indicate that fewer
>        than three binary bytes are encoded.
>
> [...]
>
>