RE: 3DES - 168 or 192 bits?

2000-01-19 Thread Josh Berezin
Title: RE: 3DES - 168 or 192 bits? Parity -- of course! Not to split hairs with Mr. Cooke, but 3DES is certainly much more than twice as secure as single DES, even if it does only provide 112 effective bits of encryption. More like 2^56 times more secure (against an exhaustive search). Than

Re: alignment and thread problem - solaris

2000-01-19 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
rw26> I'm using openssl-0.9.4 on solirs 2.6 on a Sun E3500 (sparc) [...] Noted. rw26> Anyway, when I run my app, I call n = SSL_read( ssl, (char *)&ch, 1 ); rw26> to retrieve a byte into an int named ch. I find that my correct rw26> byte is returned in the most significant byte of the int. No s

Re: Iteration count problem with pbe (PKCS5_pbe_set())

2000-01-19 Thread Dr Stephen Henson
Joel Morris wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm using openssl to implement PBEWithMD5AndDES. I'm also using Sun's JCE1.2 for >java to do the > same thing. When my iteration count <= 255 (0xff) I get the same encrypted data >back from both > programs. However, if I use a iteration count > 255 I stop g

Re: alignment and thread problem - solaris

2000-01-19 Thread Goetz Babin-Ebell
At 15:55 19.01.00 -0500, you wrote: Hello, >I'm using openssl-0.9.4 on solirs 2.6 on a Sun E3500 (sparc) >with the egcs gcc compiler v. 2.91.60. The application is multithreaded >using pthreads. > >Anyway, when I run my app, I call n = SSL_read( ssl, (char *)&ch, 1 ); >to retrieve a byte into an

alignment and thread problem - solaris

2000-01-19 Thread Randy Wright
I'm using openssl-0.9.4 on solirs 2.6 on a Sun E3500 (sparc) with the egcs gcc compiler v. 2.91.60. The application is multithreaded using pthreads. I have tried re-compiling with each of the available Configure comandline params that mention solaris. Only those with gcc will compile. Anyway, w

Iteration count problem with pbe (PKCS5_pbe_set())

2000-01-19 Thread Joel Morris
Hello, I'm using openssl to implement PBEWithMD5AndDES. I'm also using Sun's JCE1.2 for java to do the same thing. When my iteration count <= 255 (0xff) I get the same encrypted data back from both programs. However, if I use a iteration count > 255 I stop getting the same encrypted data ba

openssh

2000-01-19 Thread Subba Rao
I have downloaded OpenSSL to get OpenSSH to work. I could not find any other mailing list for OpenSSH so I posting it to this group. When I try to start up sshd I am getting the following error. (0)root@caesar => sshd -f /usr/local/etc/sshd_config -h /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_key error: Could not

Re: 3DES - 168 or 192 bits?

2000-01-19 Thread Michael Sierchio
> Josh Berezin wrote: > > It's like this: I'm trying to figure out exactly what we're using here, so we can >report it to Marketing-folk. I didn't write any of the SSL code, I'm just asking it a >few questions. > > SSL_CIPHER_description reports we're using 3DES(168). Makes sense. > SSL_CIPHER

Re: 3DES - 168 or 192 bits?

2000-01-19 Thread Andrew Cooke
If this is for marketing, then note that 3DES only provides 2*56 bits of security - it's only twice as secure as DES. See Schneier's book for details (and to check - I may be wrong - I remember some kind of meet in the middle attack, but have no idea whether it is practical). (So claiming "168

New USA web mirror of http://www.openssl.org/

2000-01-19 Thread John
Hello, A new mirror of http://www.openssl.org/ is located at http://modssl.missouri.edu/ (located in Missouri, USA) Also, there is a new mirror for the mod_ssl web site at http://modssl.missouri.edu/ (Missouri, USA) as well. Both are updated 4 times per day. For those who still prefer ftp acc

RE: Newbie question: how to enable 128bit encryption?

2000-01-19 Thread Hallam, John
Hi Wangster, Are you sure the web-server is your problem ? Are you connecting with your browser and seeing that you have only 40 bit encryption ? If the latter is the case then it's because your Netscape Browser or IE are export grade (which is the case if you are resident outside the U.S. I thin

Re: 3DES - 168 or 192 bits?

2000-01-19 Thread Dr Stephen Henson
> Josh Berezin wrote: > > It's like this: I'm trying to figure out exactly what we're using > here, so we can report it to Marketing-folk. I didn't write any of the > SSL code, I'm just asking it a few questions. > > SSL_CIPHER_description reports we're using 3DES(168). Makes sense. > SSL_CIPHER

RE: Hardware crypto accelerators

2000-01-19 Thread Salz, Rich
We use Chrysalis Luna2 and LunaCA3 and like them. http://www.chrysalis-its.com /r$ __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List[EMAIL PROTE

x509decode.h

2000-01-19 Thread Robert X Weeks
Hello I have been porting a Netscape nsapi program to Apache. The program now works but I have had to compromise on certain thing. This because I don't filly understand the openssl API. In the old nsapi code we uses a x509decode.h header that was supplied with SSLeary. This call was to x509decode

Hardware crypto accelerators

2000-01-19 Thread Oliver King
Hi guys, In the openssl-users archive, I've seen a few references to hardware crypto accelerator cards from both Rainbow (CryptoSwift) and nCipher (nFast). Are there any other cards out there with similar functionality? I'm interested in finding out how well these crypto cards integrate with Ope

cert installation

2000-01-19 Thread BROWN, Joseph
Hi, Can anyone provide information as to the possibility of installing a keypair (*.spc and *.pvk) into the Cert7.db and Key3.db or Netscape browser within windowsNT using the OpenSSL toolkit. Joseph __ OpenSSL Project

How to generate keys to use DH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA cipher?

2000-01-19 Thread damien_wang
Hello: I am a newbe to openssl, I know openssl supports DH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA and DH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA as "ciphers". But I don't know how to let openssl use those 2 ciphers :-( Is there any document talking about step-by-step procedures to let openssl use those 2 ciphers? In order to

RE: 3DES - 168 or 192 bits?

2000-01-19 Thread David Brown (UK)
Don't hold me to this but I believe that a (single) DES key holds 56 bits worth of useful data + a parity bit per 7 bits which would account for the extra keysize. Dave -Original Message- From: Josh Berezin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18 January 2000 22:49 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subj