Re: RSA private key patterns

2001-12-18 Thread Saju Paul
>> What platform are we talking about? The openssl toolkit and the two libraries (crypto & ssl) have been built on a Tandem Himalaya system. The operating system is Guardian. It does not have PERL or the MAKE utilities. It has a ANSI compatible C compiler; which I used to compile and link the

Re: problems with private keys... please help! urgent!

2001-12-18 Thread Mike K
FreeBSD3.4-REL with Openssl 0.9.6b -Mike - Original Message - From: "Lutz Jaenicke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 1:34 PM Subject: Re: problems with private keys... please help! urgent! > On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 01:28:00PM -0800, Mike K w

Re: problems with private keys... please help! urgent!

2001-12-18 Thread Lutz Jaenicke
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 01:28:00PM -0800, Mike K wrote: > # openssl genrsa -des3 -out test.key 1024 > warning, not much extra random data, consider using the -rand option > Generating RSA private key, 1024 bit long modulus > ...++ > ...++ > e is 65537 (0x100

Re: RSA private key patterns

2001-12-18 Thread Lutz Jaenicke
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 04:00:04PM -0500, Saju Paul wrote: > I'm having a problem generating a RSA private when numbits is > 64. The RSA > key generation patterns for few bits size I've tried is shown below. It's > seems to have no trouble when numbit is >= 32 and <= 64. Hmm. What platform are

Re: problems with private keys... please help! urgent!

2001-12-18 Thread Mike K
# openssl genrsa -des3 -out test.key 1024 warning, not much extra random data, consider using the -rand option Generating RSA private key, 1024 bit long modulus ...++ ...++ e is 65537 (0x10001) Enter PEM pass phrase: Verifying password - Enter PEM pass phras

RSA private key patterns

2001-12-18 Thread Saju Paul
I'm having a problem generating a RSA private when numbits is > 64. The RSA key generation patterns for few bits size I've tried is shown below. It's seems to have no trouble when numbit is >= 32 and <= 64. $WORK0 OLAPPOBJ 392> openssl genrsa 16 (does not generate key file to stdout) Generatin

Very Newbie Question

2001-12-18 Thread Scott Burton
Hello, I am looking for some advice on where to start with a Python script that needs to send and receive some data over SSL. I have looked into using M2Crypto in conjunction with OpenSSL for the solution. All I need to do is a POST to a secure server and parse the response. Here is my question

RE: problems with private keys... please help! urgent!

2001-12-18 Thread Andrew T. Finnell
Mike, Are the CA of these files self-signed? If they are why not trying regenerating new public/private key pairs. It looks to me like the files you have are corrupted. The error routines:X509_check_private_key:key values mismatch means that the certificate you are

Re: problems with private keys... please help! urgent!

2001-12-18 Thread Mike K
Same problem regarding "unable to load key" when doing this. I know my pass is correct Any other ideas? Thanks for the help. Is this error the reason why apache wont startssl? -Mike - Original Message - From: "Saju Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tues

Re: problems with private keys... please help! urgent!

2001-12-18 Thread Saju Paul
If the private key has been created with a password (usually is); then the same password needs to be supplied using the -passin argument. for ex: openssl rsa -noout -modulus -in server.key -passin pass:mypasswd | openssl md5 If the -passin argument is not used; it could be picking up a default

Re: problems with private keys... please help! urgent!

2001-12-18 Thread Mike K
It never asked me for a password - Original Message - From: "Saju Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 10:23 AM Subject: Re: problems with private keys... please help! urgent! > > For domain1, I tried to check the md5's of each of the k

Re: problems with private keys... please help! urgent!

2001-12-18 Thread Saju Paul
> For domain1, I tried to check the md5's of each of the key and crt... > > The md5 for the crt shows up fine. When I try to get the md5 for the .key, > I get this error: > > # openssl rsa -noout -modulus -in server.key | openssl md5 > read RSA key > unable to load key > d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998e

Re: Maximum size of server certificate

2001-12-18 Thread Eric Rescorla
Oops. Hit send too early. Here's the complete resonse. "Krishnaswamy R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there is any maximum size defined in TLS for a server's > certificate sent to the client? Yes, but it's ridiculously large. Officially, both any single certificate and the server's cert chai

problems with private keys... please help! urgent!

2001-12-18 Thread Mike K
Hi all... Before upgrading, one of my virtual domains (ip based) had SSL setup and was working fine. The second domain did not work. The error was odd according to people in IRC support channels, and I was told to upgrade to all of the latest versions. I did that. Now when I try to run starts

Re: Maximum size of server certificate

2001-12-18 Thread Eric Rescorla
"Krishnaswamy R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there is any maximum size defined in TLS for a server's > certificate sent to the client? Yes, but it's ridiculously large. No single certificate can be longer than 2^24 bytes. -Ekr -- [Eric Rescorla [EMAIL PR

Re: Maximum size of server certificate

2001-12-18 Thread Saju Paul
\MIS.$:2:202:45032252 - *** Run-time Error 004 *** \MIS.$:2:202:45032252 - Arithmetic fault \MIS.$:2:202:45032252 - From d2i_ASN1_SET + %334, UC.02 \MIS.$:2:202:45032252 - d2i_X509_NAME + %222, UC.02 \MIS.$:2:202:45032252 - ASN1_dup

Maximum size of server certificate

2001-12-18 Thread Krishnaswamy R.
Hi all, Is there is any maximum size defined in TLS for a server's certificate sent to the client? Or is there is any practical implementation size limit defined in OpenSSL for the size of a server's certificate. thanks, Krishna _

Re: generating private/public key

2001-12-18 Thread Michael Sierchio
"ZILBER,LEONID (HP-NewJersey,ex1)" wrote: > > Hello, > > I need to generate public/private keys. For some reasons I cannot access > openSSL docs, I think maybe the load on the server is too high. > Can someone provide me with an example how to do it? I usually just type (when I can't remember)

generating private/public key

2001-12-18 Thread ZILBER,LEONID (HP-NewJersey,ex1)
Hello, I need to generate public/private keys. For some reasons I cannot access openSSL docs, I think maybe the load on the server is too high. Can someone provide me with an example how to do it? Thank you, Leon --- Leon Zilber HP Internet Operation R&D Lab phone: 973.443.78.82 email: