RE: problems with openssl 0.9.6d and up

2002-09-18 Thread Patrick Tronnier
Have you tried this with a non "self signed certificate". ie. The subject and issuer of the cert should be different for client/end user certs. Sincerely, Patrick Tronnier Principal Security Architect www.oaticerts.com CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: This email and any attachment(s) contain confide

RE: apache with client certificates

2002-09-18 Thread Patrick Tronnier
In general, when a client certificate is presented to the server the server will attempt to "validate" the client certificate. In addition to checking validity dates (i.e.. make sure the certificate is not expired), Certificate Revocation Lists (i.e. make sure the certificate is not revoked), and

upgrading

2002-09-18 Thread Info
I am running a redhat 7.2 box with openssl version of openssl-0.9.6b-28. I found a package openssl-0.9.6c-2.i386 , rawhide 1.0 for i386. Can i download and and upgrade the present package with the rpm -Uvh packagename command? Will it break the deps? thanks __

Re: www.openssl.org

2002-09-18 Thread David Tonhofer, m-plify S.A.
I think it's still running on an olden machine at ETH Zürich? As an alumni of that fine engineering school (*cough*) I would like to think they could find a few SFR to give that important site a better uptime On second sights, they apparently did: http://www.mail-archive.com/openssl-dev@openss

Re: www.openssl.org

2002-09-18 Thread Austin Krauss
I sometimes resort to http://openssl.planetmirror.com/ in cases like this. - Original Message - From: "Jean-Marc Desperrier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 2:01 PM Subject: Re: www.openssl.org > Thomas Spoelstra a dit : > > >At 19:00 gm

Re: www.openssl.org

2002-09-18 Thread Jean-Marc Desperrier
Thomas Spoelstra a dit : >At 19:00 gmt+1 - is the OpenSSL site down? > > It does happen for me quite often that the OpenSSL site is down. It is indeed down for me too now, and I don't know any other site that I see down as often as the OpenSSL one. __

Re: apache with client certificates

2002-09-18 Thread Paul L. Allen
"Jose Correia (J)" wrote: > > [...] > On my Java side I'm using JSSE 1.0.3 together with Innovation's > HTTPClient like: That's probably your problem. I tried to get a Java/JSSE client to do client-side authentication with a C/OpenSSL server recently and couldn't get it to work. I posted a que

www.openssl.org

2002-09-18 Thread Thomas Spoelstra
Hi all, At 19:00 gmt+1 - is the OpenSSL site down? Thomas __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List[EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager

Re: Compiling ssleay32.dll and libssl32.dll

2002-09-18 Thread Thomas J. Hruska
At 10:18 AM 9/18/2002 +0200, Rasmus Aaen writeth: >Hi, > >I'm a newbie to C, but as I am using more and more open-source software I >figured I'd better start compiling it myself. Maybe I could even learn >somthing as I go. So i installed MinGW, a few libraries and have now >successfully compiled s

Re: Pls. suggest some books on security

2002-09-18 Thread Tim Bogart
Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions, Third Edition ISBN: 0072193816 CISSP All-in-One Exam Guide ISBN: 0072193530 The CISSP Prep Guide: Mastering the Ten Domains of Computer Security ISBN: 0471413569 The Total CISSP Exam Prep Book: Practice Questions, Answers, and Test Taking

RE: apache with client certificates

2002-09-18 Thread Jose Correia (J)
Actually how does Apache know about the client certificate that the client has got?? Does it compare who signed the client certificate with the CA it has in SSLCACertificateFile? Thanks anyone. Regards Jose -Original Message- From: Jose Correia (J) Sent: 18 September 2002 14:52 To: [EM

RE: Pls. suggest some books on security

2002-09-18 Thread John . Airey
Maximum Linux Security - ISBN 0-672-31670-6 is also very useful. Despite the title, it covers UNIX based security fairly well. John > -Original Message- > From: Matthew Hannigan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 18 September 2002 14:10 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Pls. suggest

Re: Pls. suggest some books on security

2002-09-18 Thread Matthew Hannigan
A little more practical and appropriate to this list: Network Security with OpenSSL http://safari.oreilly.com/main.asp?bookname=openssl Matt v.p.r.n.saibabu v.p.r.n.saibabu wrote: > Hi Vaidya, > > SSL and TLS by Eric Recorla > SSL and TLS Essentials by Stephen Thomas > > are two good books.

RE: apache with client certificates

2002-09-18 Thread Jose Correia (J)
Hi all I'm actually now getting in ssl_engine.log: [18/Sep/2002 14:41:57 32739] [error] OpenSSL: error:140890C7:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE:peer did not return a certificate [Hint: No CAs known to server for verification?] Any ideas? I don't understand how it can say "No CAs known

RE: RH 7.3 hosed up

2002-09-18 Thread John . Airey
Just in case you've got the wrong end of the stick, I'm not suggesting that you shouldn't compile stuff yourself rather than use pre-packaged software. I'm simply saying that there may be more broken by forcibly removing packages that have dependencies than is at first realised. Personally I'd nev

RE: RH 7.3 hosed up

2002-09-18 Thread David Tonhofer, m-plify S.A.
Sigh No, I haven't read the FAQ recently (maybe 5y ago). And Yes, RedHat will complain if you remove the RPM. That's why I have been fumbling the symlinks, see? I have compiled SSH & Stunnel from the source tarball. And dontcha worry, everything works just dandy. I mean, I didn't power away fro

RE: RH 7.3 hosed up

2002-09-18 Thread John . Airey
On my desktop, removing openssl would break these packages: openssl is needed by libpcap-0.6.2-11.7.2.0 libcrypto.so.2 is needed by bind-utils-9.2.1-1.7x.2 libcrypto.so.2 is needed by curl-7.8-1 libcrypto.so.2 is needed by libesmtp-0.8.4-2 libcrypto.s

RE: RH 7.3 hosed up

2002-09-18 Thread David Tonhofer, m-plify S.A.
Haven't had a single problem. Maybe I know what I'm doing? ;-) And sendmail is a no-no aaanyway... --On Wednesday, September 18, 2002 9:10 AM +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Of course, you are overlooking the fact that many packages depend on the > existence of openssl on Red Hat 7.0 and above

Re: Pls. suggest some books on security

2002-09-18 Thread Prasanth
Umesh, Applied Cryptography - Bruce Schneier, Wiley Publications, 2001 -Prasanth - Original Message - From: "Umesh Vaidya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 11:48 AM Subject: Pls. suggest some books on security > Hello experts,

Re: Client verification ?

2002-09-18 Thread Hotmail
Yes, a crypto card. But how can interface it in a windows box ? the engine method of openssl is not so clear to use and is limited to few crypto cards. - Original Message - From: "Bear Giles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 1:28 AM Subject:

Re: Pls. suggest some books on security

2002-09-18 Thread v.p.r.n.saibabu v.p.r.n.saibabu
Hi Vaidya, SSL and TLS by Eric Recorla SSL and TLS Essentials by Stephen Thomas are two good books. Thanks & regards, Sai. --- Umesh Vaidya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello experts, > please suggest me some books on Basics of security, > cryptography and SSL(Indian editions are > preferable)

Compiling ssleay32.dll and libssl32.dll

2002-09-18 Thread Rasmus Aaen
Hi, I'm a newbie to C, but as I am using more and more open-source software I figured I'd better start compiling it myself. Maybe I could even learn somthing as I go. So i installed MinGW, a few libraries and have now successfully compiled several programs, including OpenSSL 0.9.6g. The problem

RE: RH 7.3 hosed up

2002-09-18 Thread John . Airey
Of course, you are overlooking the fact that many packages depend on the existence of openssl on Red Hat 7.0 and above such as ssh and sendmail. So if you want to forcibly remove the package and break your system, go right ahead. Otherwise, following the directions in the openssl FAQ: http://www

Re: newbie - saving keys to file

2002-09-18 Thread Christian Hohnstaedt
You have heared about: PEM_read_RSAPrivateKey(fp, NULL, cb, &p); PEM_write_RSAPrivateKey(fp, key, enc, NULL, 0, cb, NULL); d2i_RSAPrivateKey_fp(fp, NULL); i2d_RSAPrivateKey_fp(fp, rsa); ? regards Christian On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 04:43:05PM -0300, Bruno Bisol wrote: > Hi, I am starting

Re: session reuse: getting "old session cipher not returned" errors

2002-09-18 Thread Steve Haslam
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 03:47:52AM +0100, Steve Haslam wrote: > SSL DEBUG HACK: s->hit=1, c=0x815217c (EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA), > s->session->cipher=(nil) ((NONE)) In fact.. (talking to myself again, sorry), I looked in d2i_SSL_SESSION(), and it sets "cipher" to NULL, although it sets cipher_id. So

Re: Client verification ?

2002-09-18 Thread Bear Giles
> The CA root private key can be kept on a floppy > or CD which is only inserted for signing to help prevent it being compromised. If you're really paranoid, get a set of java crypto cards and a reader. Last time I checked (10 months ago?) cards were around $100/5, and a reader + Linux developmen