CA files in DER format?

2000-08-28 Thread Michael Lee
Hi all, Does the function SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations() only work with certificates in the PEM format? I converted a previously working certificate into the DER format but my client program (based on cli.cpp) failed to work. Is there any workaround? Thanks. Regards, Michael Lee __

Re: Certificate Chains & server vs client/server authentication

2000-08-28 Thread Dr S N Henson
Mike Zeoli wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > > > As stated before, this same certificate chain gets verified just fine when > doing server authentication only. > > I have debugged into the library and know the following additional > information: > - In x509_vrfy.c:check_chain_purpose(), in the s

Extracting data from a DSA structure

2000-08-28 Thread Darío Mariani
Hello: I'm new to OpenSSL, I've started playing with the functions in the Crypto library and the DSA signature functions. My question is how do you extract the private and public keys from a DSA structure?. Thanks, Darío

Certificate Chains & server vs client/server authentication

2000-08-28 Thread Mike Zeoli
Hello Everyone, I have a chain of version 1 certificates. "Root CA" signs "Intermediate CA", which signs "client1" and "server1" certificates. I also have two example client/server pairs. The first example only does server authentication. The other example does both client and server authen

Re: how commercial browser clients seed PRNG

2000-08-28 Thread Eric Murray
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 04:04:00PM -0500, Glenn Carr wrote: > I'm curious if anyone knows how commercial browser clients (IE, Netscape, > Opera, etc.) seed their PRNGs? Anyone know or have any guesses? The code that Netscape developed to seed their PRNG after their Great Random Number Debacle in

Re: I'm still so very confused about certificates

2000-08-28 Thread Pietro
Your are right, anyway export restrictions have been almost removed or heavy modified and maybe we are going off topic :-) Pietro > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > there has been a generation of browsers supporting SSLv3 AND USA export > > restrictions as well: they where

Re: I'm still so very confused about certificates

2000-08-28 Thread Eric Rescorla
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > there has been a generation of browsers supporting SSLv3 AND USA export > restrictions as well: they where able to generate RSA keys limited to > 512 bit length and simmetric key up to 40 bits (upgraded to 56 > recently). Using such a netscape f

Re: I'm still so very confused about certificates

2000-08-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
there has been a generation of browsers supporting SSLv3 AND USA export restrictions as well: they where able to generate RSA keys limited to 512 bit length and simmetric key up to 40 bits (upgraded to 56 recently). Using such a netscape for example you were able to import a PKCS12 file contai

Re: Importing Certificate Problem.

2000-08-28 Thread Vimalan.G
Thanks It's working fine "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > I don't know what CA.pl -pkcs12 does nor what it does expect. Anyway, if > you simply need to create a PKCS12 file to import in netscape you need > at least the file containing the private key (say for example > newkey.pem) and the one with yo

Re: Importing Certificate Problem.

2000-08-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't know what CA.pl -pkcs12 does nor what it does expect. Anyway, if you simply need to create a PKCS12 file to import in netscape you need at least the file containing the private key (say for example newkey.pem) and the one with your certificate (say newcert.pem). If you also have your C

how commercial browser clients seed PRNG

2000-08-28 Thread Glenn Carr
I'm curious if anyone knows how commercial browser clients (IE, Netscape, Opera, etc.) seed their PRNGs? Anyone know or have any guesses? Thanks, Glenn __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Us

Re: I'm still so very confused about certificates

2000-08-28 Thread Eric Rescorla
Rich Salz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The certificate has no effect on the type of symmetric encryption that SSL > > negotiates. > > Except that if you have to support older "export-strength crypto" > browsers, then you can only have a 512bit key. Only REALLY REALLY old browsers that only su

Re: Challenge: creating certificate

2000-08-28 Thread Michael Sierchio
Two common cert request formats are PKCS#10 and Netscape's SPKAC, which is the "Signed public key and challenge." The challenge is primarily to support completion of an enrollment/certification process when the cert is retrieved OOB (cf. Verisign's enrollment process in which the binding of the

Re: Memory BIOs size grows indefinitely

2000-08-28 Thread Bodo Moeller
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 10:03:42AM +0530, Amit Chopra wrote: > Steve mentioned that the size of the memory BIO can grow indefinitely > until memory allocations fail. I assume what he is referring to is that > when BIO_write is called a reallocation is done if the data to be > written is more th

RE: Challenge: creating certificate

2000-08-28 Thread Chan, Moses
I was under the impression that the signature is the public key signed by my private key. So, am I wrong about the signature or does the CA actually do both? --Moses -Original Message- From: Rodrigo Coronado [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 1:54 PM To: [EMAI

Re: learning PRNG state on startup

2000-08-28 Thread Bodo Moeller
>> Another one problem exists: the very first run of PRNG use only half >> of that hash that cuts the search space half. That is, even properly >> seed PRNG(several hundreds of bytes) will output first >> MD_DIGEST_LENGTH/2 bytes subject to search-it-all attack with search >> space MD_DIGEST_LENGT

Re: I'm still so very confused about certificates

2000-08-28 Thread Rich Salz
> The certificate has no effect on the type of symmetric encryption that SSL > negotiates. Except that if you have to support older "export-strength crypto" browsers, then you can only have a 512bit key. __ OpenSSL Project

Re: transferring digital cert.

2000-08-28 Thread William Scates
Ah, great! I was hoping that it would that simple and cost effective! :) - Will "Leland V. Lammert" wrote: > At 10:37 AM 8/28/00 -0500, you wrote: > >Quick question. > > > >We are getting ready to do some major upgrades on our network, thus > >moving everything off the old. How would I go abo

Re: transferring digital cert.

2000-08-28 Thread Leland V. Lammert
At 10:37 AM 8/28/00 -0500, you wrote: >Quick question. > >We are getting ready to do some major upgrades on our network, thus >moving everything off the old. How would I go about transfering our >digital certificates, ect. from one server to another? > >The reason I ask is that we use Verisign an

Re: How can I change "libssl.a" into "libssl.so"?

2000-08-28 Thread Pablo J. Royo
I think you could try this: Extract *.o files in the static library with ar -x libssl.a Then link them again with: ld -rpath "/usr/local/ssl" -shared -o libssl.so *.o The command "file libssl.so" reports then: libssl.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1, not stripped so

transferring digital cert.

2000-08-28 Thread William Scates
Quick question. We are getting ready to do some major upgrades on our network, thus moving everything off the old. How would I go about transfering our digital certificates, ect. from one server to another? The reason I ask is that we use Verisign and I've heard from "unreliable" sources that w

Re: I'm still so very confused about certificates

2000-08-28 Thread Eric Murray
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 09:15:25AM +0300, Wirta, Ville wrote: > > > -Original Message- > From: Eric Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 10:04 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: I'm still so very confused about certificates > > >The certificate has no

RE: HELP NEEDED: Persist connection

2000-08-28 Thread Michael Wojcik
> -Original Message- > From: Miha Wang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 12:55 PM > Actuall, my server is apache 1.3. The KeepAlive is on. By default, > It should be persistent connection without asking for Keep-Alive. > However, it does not work with either SS

Re: How can I change "libssl.a" into "libssl.so"?

2000-08-28 Thread Ricardo Stella
You need to do a little more reading... Sure you can 'rename' it, but that won't do you any good... Anything with a '.so' extension is a shared library, and must be compiled as such. My .02... Howard wrote: > > ÄãºÃ£¡ > > I find "libssl.a" and "libcrypto.a" in the path "/usr/local/ssl/lib/"

RE: openssl usage

2000-08-28 Thread Arne Borkowski (borko.net)
Hi, I'd prefer mod_ssl over Apache-SSL patch. For an inside view how to use SSL with Apache and mod_ssl see the mod_ssl manual or some helpful links at Apache.org. Cheers, Arne -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Im Auftrag von Jatin Kochhar Gesen

openssl usage

2000-08-28 Thread Jatin Kochhar
Hi, We (Intelesoft Technologies Ltd.) are a software development company in india. We are providing software solutions to both indian as well as intenational clients. We are implementing e-commerce for few of our clients. The project is being developed using Apache webserver version 1.3.12. Now

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RE: RE: how do i know the version & how to start https

2000-08-28 Thread Arne Borkowski (borko.net)
Hi tk, I simply echo "password" as follows 8<--(snip)- #!/bin/sh echo "mysecretpassword" 8<--(snap) Cheers, Arne -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Im Auftrag von tk dev Gesendet: Montag, 28. August 2000 11:01 An: [EMAIL P

Re: AW: how do i know the version & how to start https

2000-08-28 Thread tk dev
hi arne, yes, u've been a great help. how do u write the script that gives password? i've tried to look for pp-filter(stated in modssl guide)-unfortunately i can't find it. can u give me a sample pls? thanks. tk > It will the ask for the private key protection > password > if

Re: How to install OpenSSL in SunOS 2.6

2000-08-28 Thread Craig Shaver
Hi, You need some random numbers! Solaris does not come with /dev/urandom, get it here. http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~andi/ works for me siva kumaran wrote: > > hi, > >I faced a problem when i was loading OpenSSL in > SunOS 2.6.I have installed the OpenSSL in the system ,but the comma

RE: HELP NEEDED: Persist connection

2000-08-28 Thread Miha Wang
Actuall, my server is apache 1.3. The KeepAlive is on. By default, It should be persistent connection without asking for Keep-Alive. However, it does not work with either SSL(port 443) or without SSL (port 80). I tested this with telnet: - telnet host 80 GET / HTTP1.1 This always clo