Re: Compression

1999-06-17 Thread Anonymous
Oliver, compression is in the draft. but, as Holger says, its kind of vague in how it is to be implemented in practice, compression doesn't seem to produce enough benefits, when used with streaming encryption, to make its use worthwhile. I'll point you, and the others on the list, to a present

Re: What those other fields are in RSA key

1999-06-17 Thread Anonymous
> "exponent1", "exponent2" and "coefficient" > These are used in optimized RSA implementations [...] The extra fields > are numbers computed from p and q that help with this calculation. from p, q, and d __

Re: Newbie certificate question

1999-06-17 Thread Anonymous
> I need to have the certificates up and running by Jul 1st, and I understand > that the CAs take about two weeks to deliver (Am I right?) Thawte (http://www.thawte.com) lets you download a test certificate, but that's probably not what you want. > Is it possible to ask for a certificate

RE: what's different form ssleay and openssl?

1999-06-17 Thread Anonymous
Steve Lihn wrote: > Is there any plan to re-write NET:SSLeay to something like > NET:OPENSSL and integrate it with openssl x.x.x library? If you read the latest status - http://www.openssl.org/source/cvs/exp/STATUS?rev=1.65&hideattic=1&sortbydate =0 you can find a few words under OPEN ISSUES - t

Re: Syntax for digitally-signed message?

1999-06-17 Thread Anonymous
Holger Reif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The signature is as long as the modulus of key is. Thus the > 20 bytes contain the (unsigned) hash value only. This field > is just a octett string. > > The most important thing of PKCS#1 is the padding. You can > have a look at crypto/rsa/rsa_pk1.c to ve

Re: SSL Over Shared Memory

1999-06-17 Thread Anonymous
On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 12:30:07PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Bodo Moeller: >> I don't think that using SSL is appropriate for what you want to do >> (if client and server run on the same system, why would you want to >> use cryptography?) > To protect against "casual" examination of the

Re: Newbie certificate question

1999-06-17 Thread Anonymous
On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 12:12:26PM -0500, Marco A. Zamora Cunningham wrote: > I'm setting up an HP-UX system with SSL (primarily for Apache+mod_ssl, but > I'll also do some PGP-style data signing). > My problem is: I'm working on a tight deadline and I'm having lots of > problems compiling/instal

RE: using libeay32.lib in VC6.0?

1999-06-17 Thread Anonymous
You probubly have mixed settings regarding the MSVC runtime library (MSVCRT.*) between LIBEAY32 and your VC project. For example, if your LIBEAY32 is compiled with the "/MD" switch (means runtime lib in Multithreaded DLL), your VC project settings must be the same (and the default setting is "/ML

Re: support for Netscape Form Signing?

1999-06-17 Thread Anonymous
Ben Laurie wrote: > > Michael Stroeder wrote: > > > > Song wrote: > > > > > > Can Openssl be used to support Netscape Form Signing? > > > > IMHO you have to verify the signature of signed PKCS#7 objects (similar > > to verify signatures of S/MIME mails) which was not possible in > > SSLeay/Open