Re: Does IE acknowledge nsCert?

2002-08-29 Thread Jason Haar
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 02:42:20AM +0200, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: > The Netscape Cert Type is an old non standard extension which some > software ignores. > > The standard way to do this stuff is with extended key usage and > the appropriate usage, clientAuth in this case. > Brilliant! That d

Re: [Fwd: certificate verification problem]

2002-08-29 Thread Harald Koch
> It would take some extensions to the certificate verification code > to change the behaviour. I don't know how large the interest is > in such an extension. Pick me! -- Harald Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "It takes a child to raze a village." -Michael T. Fry __

Re: [Fwd: certificate verification problem]

2002-08-29 Thread Lutz Jaenicke
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 10:21:39AM -0400, Shaheed Bacchus wrote: > that's the general direction i was slowly moving towards. > i guess one question that i have is since i have to use my > code to do the verification process anyhow, is there any > advantage to even using the X509_verify_cert() call

Re: ssl

2002-08-29 Thread Chris
Dear Ovais and openssl users. Please ignore my post concerning ssl problem as I have now resolved the problem by using ssh instead. Many thanks for your help Regards Chris On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 12:09:47PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Chris, > > BTW which OS are you trying to acco

Re: RSA_check_key function cores

2002-08-29 Thread VGuttikar
Hi Nils, I have put my doubt in the mail trail below inside __ my comments __ Please let me know what you think. Vignesh

Re: [Fwd: certificate verification problem]

2002-08-29 Thread Shaheed Bacchus
that's the general direction i was slowly moving towards. i guess one question that i have is since i have to use my code to do the verification process anyhow, is there any advantage to even using the X509_verify_cert() call? thanks once again. Lutz Jaenicke wrote: > > OpenSSL does not support

Re: [Fwd: certificate verification problem]

2002-08-29 Thread Lutz Jaenicke
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 09:10:47AM -0400, Shaheed Bacchus wrote: > you are correct, "issuer" is not self signed (in fact it's > the cert that's provided by default with openssl in the > apps/demoCA dir). so how do i tell the verification > routine to not walk further down the tree? ideally i

Re: [Fwd: certificate verification problem]

2002-08-29 Thread Shaheed Bacchus
hi lutz, you are correct, "issuer" is not self signed (in fact it's the cert that's provided by default with openssl in the apps/demoCA dir). so how do i tell the verification routine to not walk further down the tree? ideally i'd like to give it a cert that may or may not be self signed and

Re: [Fwd: certificate verification problem]

2002-08-29 Thread Lutz Jaenicke
On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 11:25:51AM -0400, Shaheed Bacchus wrote: > Shaheed Bacchus wrote: > > > hi all, > > i am having some problems getting certificate verification to > > work. i have two certs > > > > X509 *client; > > Subject: /C=AU/ST=Some-State/O=Internet Widgits Pty Ltd/CN=MyTest > > Iss

Re: "Apache-style" licence for openssl

2002-08-29 Thread Jeremy Hunt
See the license in the Distrib: bash-2.05$ more LICENSE LICENSE ISSUES == The OpenSSL toolkit stays under a dual license, i.e. both the conditions of the OpenSSL License and the original SSLeay license apply to the toolkit. See below for the actual license texts. Act

Re: RSA_check_key function cores

2002-08-29 Thread Nils Larsch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi friends, > > RSA_check_key() cores. RSA_check_key() expects a private key => the RSA structure must contain valid rsa->p and rsa->q entries otherwise RSA_check_key() will always produce a core dump ( without p and q you can not verify that a RSA key is valid, bu

Re: OBJ_txt2nid not working after upgrading to 0.9.6g

2002-08-29 Thread Lutz Jaenicke
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 10:32:46AM +0200, Vaclav Ovsik wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 05:21:39PM +1000, Reddie, Steven wrote: > > We have some code that was working with OpenSSL 0.9.6d this morning. Now > > that I've upgraded to 0.9.6g it's failing. > > > > OBJ_txt2nid("2.5.29.17") is now retu

Re: OBJ_txt2nid not working after upgrading to 0.9.6g

2002-08-29 Thread Vaclav Ovsik
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 05:21:39PM +1000, Reddie, Steven wrote: > We have some code that was working with OpenSSL 0.9.6d this morning. Now > that I've upgraded to 0.9.6g it's failing. > > OBJ_txt2nid("2.5.29.17") is now returning 0 instead of the expected 85 > (NID_subject_alt_name). > > OBJ_ni

"Apache-style" licence for openssl

2002-08-29 Thread Erik Christiansen
Chasing down the licencing requirements for openssl, on the site, in the FAQ, and in the list archive, I've so far only found my way to the generic "Apache-style" licence at: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/index.php It seems odd giving credit to Apache for OpenSSL, unless they are the

OBJ_txt2nid not working after upgrading to 0.9.6g

2002-08-29 Thread Reddie, Steven
We have some code that was working with OpenSSL 0.9.6d this morning. Now that I've upgraded to 0.9.6g it's failing. OBJ_txt2nid("2.5.29.17") is now returning 0 instead of the expected 85 (NID_subject_alt_name). OBJ_nid2sn(NID_subject_alt_name) does return "subjectAltName". It seems that the ma