Re: secure mailinglists

2002-03-08 Thread Rich Salz
Does it *have* to be a conventional mailing list? How about a web-based archive. Your CA issues an SSL cert to the server. It can also issue certs to mailing list members, and/or SSL client certs. To "post" users either send signed mail to an alias (which verifies the signature and makes sure

Re: secure mailinglists

2002-03-08 Thread Dr S N Henson
Damian Hesse wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > we have set up our own CA and generated for everybody > user certificates for secure communication. It really works > fine. > > The task: now we want to set up mailinglists (server side) > like "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" where some users of our company and > s

Re: I need to know how to generate a certificate in pkcs7 format withopenSSL

2002-03-08 Thread Dr S N Henson
"GOLDING,CHARLTON (Non-HP-Corvallis,ex1)" wrote: > > Chet Golding > Hewlett-Packard > ESDO, Operations Engineering > > >-Original Message- > >From: Dr S N Henson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 6:01 PM > > Thanks, [Steve, good info!] we're on the right track

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2002-03-08 Thread Alphy A. Quintos
-Original Message- From: Vadim Fedukovich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 12:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: intermediate level CA certificates, chains On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Martin Witzel wrote: > > Hi, > > I have two questions about certificate chains.

Decryption wrong when seeking into a file.

2002-03-08 Thread Lorenzo
I have a quick question to ask. I'm using the EVP_EncryptInit and EVP_DecryptInit functions to stream data to a file. Basically, I encrypt data , one byte at a time, which is in the put area of my filebuf object and send it out. I When I get data from the file, I decrypt each byte I receive

RE: I need to know how to generate a certificate in pkcs7 format withopenSSL

2002-03-08 Thread GOLDING,CHARLTON (Non-HP-Corvallis,ex1)
Chet Golding Hewlett-Packard ESDO, Operations Engineering >-Original Message- >From: Dr S N Henson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 6:01 PM Thanks, [Steve, good info!] we're on the right track now. A few fine details to work out but it is running. I had a que

Re: intermediate level CA certificates, chains

2002-03-08 Thread Vadim Fedukovich
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Martin Witzel wrote: > > Hi, > > I have two questions about certificate chains. > > a.) Can an openssl intermediate CA create certificates which contain the > certificate > of an intermediate level signing CA _and_ the certificate(s) of > higher level CAs, > i.e. a

Any tutorial for renew and revoking certificates ?

2002-03-08 Thread Bogusław Brandys
Hello, I'm still newbie and I'd like to know if there is any tutorial describing what is CRL , PKI and how to revoke or renew certificate using OpenSSL ? Also I have one maybe off-topic question: I successfully instaled my certificate into Apache but when connect to using IE 5.5 all seems good e

question on digest in x.509 certificate

2002-03-08 Thread Chiariglione Filippo
Hi All, just for a test I would like to associate a x.509 certificate to a file, but I would like also to have a digest in the certificate (generated with the openssl dgst command) that certifies that this file hasn't been modified. Could someone please tell me if it could be possible (and how :)

Subject: Troubles Creating a Certificate for IIS

2002-03-08 Thread Brandon Amundson
Subject: Troubles Creating a Certificate for IIS Currently our setup consists of a Linux web server running apache. Part of the site is restricted through the use of SSL and client certificates. We have a self-signed root certificate, created with OpenSSL, and a server certificate signed by o

Re: newbie question on OCSP

2002-03-08 Thread Rich Salz
Rich Salz wrote: > An org might consider its CRL private info ("ooh look, Fred must > have gotten fired") In private email, I was prompted to explain this better. The issue is not when ONE cert is revoked, but when a large number, and you can make guesses about the number range. For exa

RES: Crypto question - how to obtain correct size of plaintext message when decrypting - standard???

2002-03-08 Thread Mads Rasmussen
Thanks alot Shawn, Just one thing, in PKCS 5 v2 the section number is 6.1 for the padding scheme. It says for the now preferred scheme PBES2 that (6.2.1 - 4. encryption "This step may involve selection of parameters such as an initialization vector and padding, depending on the underlying s

RE: BSafe RSA keys

2002-03-08 Thread abogomolov
I have more questions regarding your response since I am relatively new to this stuff: What's PDU? how do you decode PrivateKeyInfo PDU to extract PrivateKeyInfo PDU struct? and how do you then encode it? THank you Alex

RE: BSafe RSA keys

2002-03-08 Thread Prashant Kumar
Alex, I guess B_GetKeyInfo(buffer, obj,KI_PKCS_RSAPrivateBER) returns a ASN1 of PrivateKeyInfo PDU. You have to extract RSAPrivateKey PDU from this PrivateKeyInfo PDU. Once you get RSAPrivateKey PDU you can then use "SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_ASN1" API to set the private key. To do all these things

BSafe RSA keys

2002-03-08 Thread abogomolov
Hi, I am working on putting OpenSSL into our app. However, we are required to use RSA keys that are produced with BSafe by another app. Does anybody know how to get BSafe RSA Private key to work with open ssl? I tried to use the output of B_GetKeyInfo(buffer, obj,KI_PKCS_RSAPrivateBER) However tha

Re: Longterm verify_callback in single threaded app

2002-03-08 Thread Lutz Jaenicke
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 09:42:42AM +0100, Joerg Bartholdt wrote: > During the SSL Handshake, OpenSSL can call a verify_callback > that can manipulate the outcome of the certificate verification > process. > If I use some longterm evaluation like an OCSP-Request, my single > threaded application

Re: problem in handshake.

2002-03-08 Thread Lutz Jaenicke
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 10:37:17AM +0530, kaushik_vishwakarma wrote: > SSL_accept error in SSLv3 read client hello C. > If i remove client authentication from the server then i can establish many >connections with session being reused. Its only when the client authentication is >enabled i

Re: Crypto question - how to obtain correct size of plaintext message when decrypting - standard???

2002-03-08 Thread Shawn Masters
I'm not sure cross posting to these two lists is appropriate for this question, but here are some alternatives you can use. 1)OpenPGP defines the packet length in the header of the packet. This is done with a scheme based on it being an old or new packet followed by a set of byte

Need help! Questions of ciphers.

2002-03-08 Thread gliu
Hi Everyone   I am going to set up a Web site with SSL for a company.And as being a newbie to SSL and cryptography,I have some foundamental questions.     1.To the Japanese user ,which length of RSA key can be used ? Do I have to pay money to rsasecurity for the patent.   2.I found in the n

Re: newbie question on OCSP

2002-03-08 Thread Rich Salz
There are other differences: CRL's can be big An org might consider its CRL private info ("ooh look, Fred must have gotten fired") It's hard to *prove* you consulted a CRL; for OCSP use a hash of your "real" document as the nonce, and save the response. An OCSP re

/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0

2002-03-08 Thread Tony
Hi, How do I enable the build of this lib? I cannot seem to get this lib in place. Any help is appriciated. __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List[

Re: secure mailinglists

2002-03-08 Thread Roman Zillek
Hi, my pseudo code solution would look about like the following: Legend: E...encryption function D...decryption funtion S...signing function pubK[x]...public key party "x" privK[x]...private key party "x" -- ListContribution: E(message+S[message,

Signing other certificates using root CA created by openssl

2002-03-08 Thread Peter Kim
Hi support, Could you please tell me where I made mistake.. Below shows that it fails after I ran the following command to sign other cert: openssl x509 -req -in ca2.csr -CA ca1.crt -CAkey ca1.key -out ca2.crt Currently I am using Win2K with openssl 0.9.6b thank you. -

Problem recognizing Digital signed messages.

2002-03-08 Thread Hans Carlos Hofmann
Hello, i have a problem with a digital pkcs7 signed mail. i want verify the message test.ed.text. i have the Digitrust certs in the CA-Directory and a valid aliases lrwxrwxrwx 1 replayer replayer 25 Oct 5 12:08 0be059c6.0 -> ../Certs/Digitrust-A1.pem lrwxrwxrwx 1 replayer replayer

Help! SSL Telnet client-server deadlock problem.

2002-03-08 Thread David_May
Please help. I have a major problem with SSL Telnet. When I connect with SSL-MZtelnet-0.11.2 client from my FreeBSD 4.4 box through a SSL proxy to a telnet server on AIX 4.3.2 and run "ls -l" command screen output sometimes does not complete. If I hit enter then last few lines are displayed.

Re: secure mailinglists

2002-03-08 Thread Bear Giles
> Message senders encrypt the message with the public key of the > mailinglist. The mailinglist server decrypts the message using the > private key for the mailinglist and encrypts it again individually > for every recipient. The problematic part is the signature, I guess. > Would it be possible t

Longterm verify_callback in single threaded app

2002-03-08 Thread Joerg Bartholdt
Hi *, During the SSL Handshake, OpenSSL can call a verify_callback that can manipulate the outcome of the certificate verification process. If I use some longterm evaluation like an OCSP-Request, my single threaded application is blocked during this time. I cannot return a value like "I don't k

Re: secure mailinglists

2002-03-08 Thread Sean O'Riordain
Sorry Damian, but I don't see why the mail server needs to have the _private_ keys of the individuals... If I have the story correct... 1) You generate a key pair on the mail server and distribute the public key to your users. The public keys of your users are made accessible to the list-s