Re: OpenSSL denial of service

2003-08-19 Thread Shawn P. Stanley
If someone has implemented software protection (that isn't already in place), I sure hope they share it with the rest of us. That's really the only level where we as SSL programmers have reasonable control, but only after making sure we have a good firewall and a solid TCP/IP stack in place. On 8

RE: openssl is not recognized as an internal or external command

2003-08-19 Thread Mark Radford
Title: RE: openssl is not recognized as an internal or external command Since that last mail I think I have finally created my certificate (once I figure this all out I think I might right a how to guide for newbies). Anyway, now I have my certificate I want to setup a page on my localho

RE: openssl is not recognized as an internal or external command

2003-08-19 Thread Mark Radford
Title: RE: openssl is not recognized as an internal or external command Thanks steve, If you've done a standard Windows build you'd have various DLLs and executables in the out32dll directory. They should be copied somewhere on your PATH. copy out32dll\libeay32.dll c:\windows\system cop

Re: Newbie question - Signing CSR's (picture enclosed)

2003-08-19 Thread Charles B Cranston
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words: The "Standard Model" of Certificate generation: On the server machine: Generate CSR operation +-+ +-+ | Private Key | | Certificate Signing Request | +--+--+ |

RE: OpenSSL denial of service

2003-08-19 Thread Lee Dilkie
Depends on the attack itself? are you worried about syn flood type attacks, on the tcp port itself? or are you worried about ssl attacks that go through with ssl negotiation and simply strive to consume processing resources? the former has several solutions, including firewalls. the later is no

Re: Newbie question - Signing CSR's

2003-08-19 Thread Charles B Cranston
Rohan Pinto wrote: >I wrote What you need to do is: 1. create a root certificate 2. install that root certificate into all your web browsers 3. create a CSR on the server 4. use the root to sign that CSR into a server certificate This is the part that i would need help on. I have created a root c

Re: OpenSSL denial of service

2003-08-19 Thread Neil Humphreys
Shawn, Thanks for the response. It's a lovely thought, but it's not as simple as sticking in a firewall I am afraid .. that leaves me open to attacks that can't be blocked by the firewall .. such as attacks from inside the firewall, or attacks from outside that use the correct port and appear to

Re: Newbie question - Signing CSR's

2003-08-19 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003, Rohan Pinto wrote: > This is the part that i would need help on. I have created a root > certificate, I've imported that into all my web browsers and also on the > webserver. I have also crested a cSR from the webserver. I dont know how to > sign the CSR If I could get s

Re: Compile Hint +z for OpenSSL on HP-UX 10.20

2003-08-19 Thread Lutz Jaenicke
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 08:19:39PM -0700, Josh Chamas wrote: > Hi, > > I recently ran into a problem building Crypt::SSLeay against > perl 5.6.1 and openssl 0.9.7b on HP-UX 10.20. The problem was > that for the standard cc compiler on that platform, the "+z" CC_FLAG > needed to be added to the Ma