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briansmith / how-to-generate-and-use-private-keys-with-openssl-tool.md
Last active April 11, 2024 17:02
How to generate & use private keys using the OpenSSL command line tool

How to Generate & Use Private Keys using OpenSSL's Command Line Tool

These commands generate and use private keys in unencrypted binary (not Base64 “PEM”) PKCS#8 format. The PKCS#8 format is used here because it is the most interoperable format when dealing with software that isn't based on OpenSSL.

OpenSSL has a variety of commands that can be used to operate on private key files, some of which are specific to RSA (e.g. openssl rsa and openssl genrsa) or which have other limitations. Here we always use

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briansmith / SECG-Curve-Seeds.txt
Last active June 9, 2022 02:50
SECG Curve Seeds
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=289795.msg3183975#msg3183975
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=289795.msg3191346#msg3191346
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=289795.msg3200275#msg3200275
SECG 1.0: http://www.secg.org/SEC2-Ver-1.0.pdf
ASCII "MinghuaQu"
1. secp112r1 00F50B028E|4D696E676875615175|290472783FB1
2. secp112r2 002757A111|4D696E676875615175|5316C05E0BD4
----| |
3. secp128r1 000E0D|4D696E676875615175|0CC03A4473D03679
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briansmith / install-rust-aarch64-apple-darwin.sh
Created November 20, 2020 22:51
Bootstrap a working native aarch64-apple-darwin Rust toolchain
#!/bin/bash
# "Bash Strict Mode with logging"
set -eux -o pipefail
IFS=$'\n\t'
case $(uname -p) in
arm)
;;
*)
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briansmith / multiplication.txt
Created August 6, 2015 22:50
Copyright 2015 Brian Smith.
One Way to do Multi-precision Multiplication
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briansmith / 2^((nBits `div` 2) - 100) apart
Created February 4, 2017 23:12 — forked from lgarron/2^((nBits `div` 2) - 100) apart
In[121]:= p = NextPrime[RandomInteger[{2^2047, 2^2048}]]
Out[121]= \
2472858022210415099164045402553368874951528885035736322800760410002954\
4038243222193098931418739578329762267040841916783150979034128645102130\
0253513299160810798121444406865510009715543992322555089967015541632378\
0710135209985817236443936777772937122422269799403563157416882656645382\
0161318776579572843028782784167357793642890306031876148210563553196737\
6550335038180588177627102411796625979142817323054655605301722206159897\
4290495880080776782541535829627114438988359115159634994645719944873859\
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briansmith / example-crypto-bench-results.txt
Created June 6, 2016 19:41
Running target/release/crypto_bench_fastpbkdf2-33c7a66054d7f888
running 3 tests
test pbkdf2::hmac_sha1 ... bench: 18,086,881 ns/iter (+/- 192,553)
test pbkdf2::hmac_sha256 ... bench: 46,551,859 ns/iter (+/- 412,079)
test pbkdf2::hmac_sha512 ... bench: 59,626,892 ns/iter (+/- 2,230,720)
test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 3 measured
Running target/release/crypto_bench_octavo-a3a92e776155ebd1
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briansmith / onename
Created October 24, 2015 01:28
Verifying that +briansmith is my blockchain ID. https://onename.com/briansmith