Re: Is a 'random.pem' file secure?

2002-07-25 Thread Eric Rescorla
"Fisk, Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I believe this was actually from a sample provided to us by Eric in response > to a question we posted on the list. SOP for OpenSSL prior to the wide availability of /dev/random. was to collect a bunch of "random" data from various sources on the machi

Re: Is a 'random.pem' file secure?

2002-07-25 Thread Thomas J. Hruska
At 04:12 PM 7/25/2002 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writeth: >On 25/07/2002 15:47:30 owner-openssl-users wrote: > >>My question is whether this compromises security in any way. Especially >if >>this same "random.pem" file is being used on multiple clients and is being >>freely and openly distributed,

RE: Is a 'random.pem' file secure?

2002-07-25 Thread Fisk, Kevin
I believe this was actually from a sample provided to us by Eric in response to a question we posted on the list. Kevin -Original Message- From: Xperex Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 3:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Is a 'random.pem' file secure?

RE: Is a 'random.pem' file secure?

2002-07-25 Thread Moffet, Scott
Tim That's the one. It's off Eric's website that includes sample code to go with the book. http://www.rtfm.com/sslbook/ and hit the link for 'C example code' Great book, BTW ~S >Do you mean Rescorla's book "SSL and TLS"? On what >page in Rescorla is the random.pem technique >mentioned?

Re: Is a 'random.pem' file secure?

2002-07-25 Thread Xperex Tim
Do you mean Rescorla's book "SSL and TLS"? On what page in Rescorla is the random.pem technique mentioned? I was unable to find it. Thanks. Tim --- "Moffet, Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good day all, > > I'm building an SSL client app that will run on a > wide variety of platforms

libcrypto stack routines

2002-07-25 Thread Chris Jarshant
Is there documentation (aside from looking at the header files) on how to use things like STACK_OF(type) and the sk_*_find() functions? Perhaps I'm going about it wrong, but I can't figure it out. Any help would be most apprecianted. I'm trying to do this: given a STACK_OF(PKCS12_SAFEBAG) instan

Mozilla/Netscape 6 certificate generation

2002-07-25 Thread lisscoop
Hello, I am having trouble generating certificates for Mozilla 0.9.9 and Netscape 6.x. The command that I use for Netscape 4.x cert generation is below: openssl ca -key jwilkat25 -spkac $DIR/req.raw \ -config ca.config \ -out c:/progra~1/apache~1/apache/htdocs/$CERT.cert where $DIR is t

Re: configuring with different lib names

2002-07-25 Thread Götz Babin-Ebell
amos blackman schrieb: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 09:51:20PM +0200, Götz Babin-Ebell wrote: > >>Amos Blackman schrieb: >> >>>i was just wondering if there was a simple way to generate all the >>>makefiles and supporting scripts such that they create differently named >>>libraries (eg. libcrypto-0

Re: Will there be a 0.9.7 beta 3?

2002-07-25 Thread Lutz Jaenicke
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 09:50:07AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all, > I was wondering if there will be a 0.9.7 beta 3 coming soon > or whether we will go directly to a full release? > Does any one know the approximate dates (ball park) for > beta 3 or release? Several changes have bee

Re: OpenSSL and FTP

2002-07-25 Thread Martin Carpenter
"Jean nmard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody know if a version of openSSL with FTP exist on WinNT ? > All I found deal with FTP and OpenSSL, but it is separated of the > global OpenSSL project, and it doesn't work on WinNT... There's no directly integrated Secure FTP client in the Open

Re: Again: PKCS5_pbe2_set - salt

2002-07-25 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002, Aleix Conchillo wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 02:27:06 +0200, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: > > with PKCS5_pbe i get the original data perfectly but with PKCS5_pbe2 i > just get decrypted well the second 8 byte block. so i just get right the > last 6 bytes of my 14 orginal. > >

Re: PKCS12 and private keys

2002-07-25 Thread Chris Jarshant
Erwann ABALEA wrote: > > friendlyName, then look for their public key cert using that friendlyName, > > then look for a corresponding private key using the friendlyName. If I > > can't find a private key with that friendlyName, I use the localKeyID from > > the public key cert to match. If th

Re: OpenSSL and FTP

2002-07-25 Thread Shawn Duffy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Maybe I am misunderstanding the question... are you looking for an SSL-enabled ftp client? If so, you can try PSFTP from: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ thanks, shawn p. duffy http://codepiranha.org/~pakkit email: [EMAIL PROTECT

OpenSSL and FTP

2002-07-25 Thread Jean nmard
Hi there, Does anybody know if a version of openSSL with FTP exist on WinNT ? All I found deal with FTP and OpenSSL, but it is separated of the global OpenSSL project, and it doesn't work on WinNT... Thanks, Jean. ___

Re: rsaref

2002-07-25 Thread Erwann ABALEA
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Ken Hoo wrote: > What happened to the rsaref directory in the 097 beta 2 version? RSAREF is no more needed in the US, so you can safely ignore anything about RSAREF. -- Erwann ABALEA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - RSA PGP Key ID: 0x2D0EABD5 - Expliquez-moi, car je ne comprends

rsaref

2002-07-25 Thread Ken Hoo
What happened to the rsaref directory in the 097 beta 2 version? __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List[EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager

Re: configuring with different lib names

2002-07-25 Thread amos blackman
On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 09:51:20PM +0200, Götz Babin-Ebell wrote: > Amos Blackman schrieb: > >i was just wondering if there was a simple way to generate all the > >makefiles and supporting scripts such that they create differently named > >libraries (eg. libcrypto-096d and libssl-096d), so that

Re: PKCS12 and private keys

2002-07-25 Thread Aleix Conchillo
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 17:33:49 +0200 (CEST), Erwann ABALEA wrote: > > How is that localKeyID calculated? Is it a hash of the public key? If > yes, then this sounds an acceptable practice, if you really *need* to > keep separate PKCS#12 files, which is uncommon. > it's a digest of the x509 certif

Re: PKCS12 and private keys

2002-07-25 Thread Erwann ABALEA
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Chris Jarshant wrote: [...] > Also, my app will support multiple keys/certs in a variety of places. For > example, > the public key cert for user X is in one PKCS12-format file, and the > corresponding private key is in a separate PKCS12-format file. Are there > any offici

Re: Is a 'random.pem' file secure?

2002-07-25 Thread sandor . nagy
On 25/07/2002 15:47:30 owner-openssl-users wrote: >My question is whether this compromises security in any way. Especially if >this same "random.pem" file is being used on multiple clients and is being >freely and openly distributed, is this making my system less secure and more >vulnerable to

Re: PKCS12 and private keys

2002-07-25 Thread Chris Jarshant
Chris Jarshant wrote: > Erwann ABALEA wrote: > > > Probably a limitation of the actual browsers. But you might want to check > > Mozilla 1.0, which seems to be able to save a bunch of private > > key/certificate pairs at once. I haven't tested this functionality, but it > > might be possible th

Re: RE : openssl engine use

2002-07-25 Thread Geoff Thorpe
Hey there, On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Frederic DONNAT wrote: > A sample of programming with engine is mod-ssl (initialize ENGINE before > everything else). You can also see "apps" directory of OpenSSL s_client, > s_server ... files > > Be also carefull between openssl-engine-0.9.6x and openssl-0.9.7 t

Re: script for publication of 1000 certificate using openssl due to load balance testing of ldap

2002-07-25 Thread "Christian Pohl"
Hi Markus, it's very easy, Mak a new root ca (e.g. with script MakeRootCA.sh from openvalidation.org) make a openssl.cnf- file with some place-holders for name an orgunit and so on. put in the req-section promt = no build a simple (perl) skript do parse config and replace place-holders writ

Is a 'random.pem' file secure?

2002-07-25 Thread Moffet, Scott
Good day all, I'm building an SSL client app that will run on a wide variety of platforms and OS's, and a primary requirement is that it must be easily installed. The trouble I've had is with platforms that don't have a built-in PRNG. I don't want to have to install additional modules to get a

RE: FIPS-140 certification

2002-07-25 Thread John . Airey
Indeed. In the UK there was recently an issue of the security of cash-machines because of a bug in the implementation of a similarly certified protocol. It meant that you could potentially get card details by sniffing what went down the telephone lines. I haven't heard whether this has been resolv

Re: FIPS-140 certification

2002-07-25 Thread Rich Salz
> Just to add my thoughts to the cooking pot, FIPS-140 probably isn't worth a > string of beans. You are technically savvy enough to decide that for yourself. Many folks are not -- who, really, is equipped to run RNG tests and understand the importance for keygen? The FIPS-140 specs are remar

RE: FIPS-140 certification

2002-07-25 Thread Edward Lewis
One of the main reasons for FIPS is to make writing (US Federal) government "requests for proposals" easier. Without dwelling on that, the FIPS is mostly a procurement-thing, not a technical thing. (Look at the relationship of GOSIP with OSI, the FIPS version of POSIX...) FIPS is mostly impo

Re: PKCS12 and private keys

2002-07-25 Thread Chris Jarshant
Erwann ABALEA wrote: > Probably a limitation of the actual browsers. But you might want to check > Mozilla 1.0, which seems to be able to save a bunch of private > key/certificate pairs at once. I haven't tested this functionality, but it > might be possible that there's only one output file, and

RE: FIPS-140 certification

2002-07-25 Thread jbihlmey
All, hhmmm, how best to describe this. a version of OpenSSL has been FIPS 140-1 certified. go to http://csrc.nist.gov/cryptval/140-1/1401val2001.htm and look for Corsec Security Inc. They we hired by tne NIST to do this as a reference implementation. It is thought that NIST may eventually release t

Re: SMIME question

2002-07-25 Thread Ken Hirsch
Maya wrote: >When I create signed or encrypted message, I get as input param SMTP header + MIME message. >Do I have to signed and encrypt both (SMTP header + MIME message) or just the second part? >What should be the SMTP header of the Signed or(and) Encrypted message? As others have noted, you