Re: Bug report: primality testing algorithm.

2000-01-31 Thread Ben Laurie
"Paulo S. L. M. Barreto" wrote: > > Greetings. > > I'm implementing elliptic curve software on top of OpenSSL Bignum > library. When testing it on NIST's standard curves, I found a problem that > seems not to be in my code: Bignum reports that NIST's 384-bit prime is not > prime! I've checked

Re: urgenttly need help

2000-01-31 Thread Skye Poier
Word on the street is that Yossapon Sutharattanachaiporn said: > I got an error around ssl_connect/ssl_accept line. this is my code. > Do i miss any step? Yes, you're missing the step where you check the return value and if the call fails, print out the reason with ERR_print_errors() Check apps/

Re: SSL_read problem

2000-01-31 Thread Skye Poier
Word on the street is that Amir Amit said: > when I run SSL_read on a socket (as the client), where the server is > down, SSL_read returns with 0 - as there where no bytes to read from > socket. This is not true - the server is down and there will never be > something to read from server. Because

Re: Setting up OpenSSL

2000-01-31 Thread Skye Poier
Word on the street is that HEIN Martin said: > Unfortunately I cannot find any documentation on how to set up OpenSSL > appropriately, i.e. configuring both the global and user-specific > *.cnf-files, as well as creating public and private keys. This site helped me get going: http://www.columbia

Re: Bug report: primality testing algorithm.

2000-01-31 Thread Dr Stephen Henson
Dr Stephen Henson wrote: > > > > When testing it on NIST's standard curves, I found a problem that > > seems not to be in my code: Bignum reports that NIST's 384-bit prime is not > > prime! > > Do you have a URL referencing these NIST standard curves? > Ignore that. I've found the URL. On NIS

Where can I find info on how to use openssl-0.9.4?

2000-01-31 Thread Will Bradley
Where can I find info on how to use openssl-0.9.4? Is there any documentation for this API? Thanks, Will Bradley Software Engineer/Intern Anark Communications http://www.anark.com __ OpenSSL Project

Re: Bug report: primality testing algorithm.

2000-01-31 Thread Dr Stephen Henson
Paulo S. L. M. Barreto wrote: > > Greetings. > > I'm implementing elliptic curve software on top of OpenSSL Bignum > library. Interesting. Will you be making the code public? > When testing it on NIST's standard curves, I found a problem that > seems not to be in my code: Bignum reports that

Re: error: bad command or file name

2000-01-31 Thread Dr Stephen Henson
Qing Huo wrote: > > Hi, > > I am newbie, I am trying setup SSL on my system. My system is windows 98 > and VC++6.0 has been setup on my machine. I tried following steps: > > 1. openssl-0.9.4>perl Configure VC-Win32 > 2. openssl-0.9.4>ms\do_ms > 3. openssl-0.9.4>nmake -f ms\ntdll.mak

Bug report: primality testing algorithm.

2000-01-31 Thread Paulo S. L. M. Barreto
Greetings. I'm implementing elliptic curve software on top of OpenSSL Bignum library. When testing it on NIST's standard curves, I found a problem that seems not to be in my code: Bignum reports that NIST's 384-bit prime is not prime! I've checked the value with MIRACL and Java (which in tur

error: bad command or file name

2000-01-31 Thread Qing Huo
Hi, I am newbie, I am trying setup SSL on my system. My system is windows 98 and VC++6.0 has been setup on my machine. I tried following steps: 1. openssl-0.9.4>perl Configure VC-Win32 2. openssl-0.9.4>ms\do_ms 3. openssl-0.9.4>nmake -f ms\ntdll.mak the first two steps are successfu

how to use SSL

2000-01-31 Thread Qing Huo
Dear sir: I am newbie, I want to know how to use the SSL in my program. I want to stup this concept in my mind. Can you tell me something about this? Or can you tell some websites or books about thids? Thanks Qing __ OpenSSL

Browsers don't like my certificates?

2000-01-31 Thread Garrett Wollman
I couldn't find an FAQ anywhere which might explain this problem. We're developing a CA of our own to issue server and client certificates for internal applications. I've been working on the Web application which allows users to apply for certs -- naturally, this is an SSL server itself. (Oh, a

Re: SSL_read problem

2000-01-31 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Amir Amit wrote: > hi. > > when I run SSL_read on a socket (as the client), where the server is > down, SSL_read returns with 0 - as there where no bytes to read from > socket. This is not true - the server is down and there will never be > something to read from server. Bec

Requesting browser (client) certificates

2000-01-31 Thread Issac Goldstand
I would like to set up a script that will generate client certificates from within the browser and send the csr files to me for signing. How would I go about telling the browser to generate a key pair, and what kind of output would it give me. Also, although I beleive it should not be necessary

Success message after installing netscape certificate?

2000-01-31 Thread Reiner Buehl
Hi, I managed to get certificates installed in Netscape Browsers by sending them with MIME type application/x-x509-user-cert but Netscape seems to give no kind of a success message. Is it possible to get such a message or popup window? I tried to send the certificate and a success page as parts o

Re: Generating CSR for Netscape Certificate Server based CA (fwd)

2000-01-31 Thread Dr Stephen Henson
Nicolas Aragon wrote: > > Hello, > > On 29 Jan 00, at 19:48, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote: > > > To date, I have not been able to generate a CSR that is acceptable to the > > Netscape Certificate Server. All requests are rejected with a "bad DER > > encoding" error. > > I had the same error

R: Automatic certs import into Netscape

2000-01-31 Thread Stefano Bergamasco
Thanks Ivan, it may be very useful form my work, but I can't reach the page: anything down with your server? Bye, Stefano Bergamasco -Messaggio Originale- Da: Ivan Visconti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Data invio: Friday, January 28, 2000 2:17 PM Oggetto: Re: Automatic cert

RE: HTTP-Post and OpenSSL

2000-01-31 Thread Reiner Buehl
Hi, I had no problems using LWP::UserAgent and Crypt::SSLeay for HTTPS-Post. You just have to apply a small patch to LWP if you have to use a proxy for your https connection but then everything works fine. The only thing I did not (yet) get to work is SSL with client authentication using client

SSL_read problem

2000-01-31 Thread Amir Amit
hi. when I run SSL_read on a socket (as the client), where the server is down, SSL_read returns with 0 - as there where no bytes to read from socket. This is not true - the server is down and there will never be something to read from server. Because the SSL_read command is non blocking and is in

Re: Generating CSR for Netscape Certificate Server based CA (fwd)

2000-01-31 Thread Nicolas Aragon
Hello, On 29 Jan 00, at 19:48, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote: > To date, I have not been able to generate a CSR that is acceptable to the > Netscape Certificate Server. All requests are rejected with a "bad DER > encoding" error. I had the same error message from Navigator with a certificat