pointers on DSA and assymetric signature validation needed

From: Blair Taylor (bltaylor@chubb.com)
Date: 11/24/02 

From: "Blair Taylor" <bltaylor@chubb.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 23:47:51 -0800

I have the same problem. I am attempting to load a public
key generated using a Java application into a DSA object.
It doesn't like the DSAParameter.Y loaded with the bytes
from the public key.

>-----Original Message-----
>I'm sure this is straight forward but crypto just scares
>me...
>
>Basically, I am putting together a little app for a
>client for which I need to receive some command line
>params. To prevent tampering, there is a DSA hash passed
>as a signature. I have the public key, and I know how the
>information passed is being used to create the signature.
>How can I verify it? I've checked over the
>system.security.cryptography.DSA namespace but can't see
>anything that looks quite like what I need, specifically
>where to put the public key (it's in a file, not a
>certificate). ANyone have any code snippets or guidelines
>on this?
>.
>

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