Re: Question about CA.pl and -newca

2003-08-22 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003, Nick Gray wrote: > Prior to version 0.96 I didn't have a problem with OpenSSL at all. Today > I built a new system and tried to use it with the following results. > > root:/usr/local/openssl# cd misc > root:/usr/local/openssl/misc# ls > CA.pl CA.sh c_hash c_info c_issuer

Question about CA.pl and -newca

2003-08-22 Thread Nick Gray
Prior to version 0.96 I didn't have a problem with OpenSSL at all. Today I built a new system and tried to use it with the following results. root:/usr/local/openssl# cd misc root:/usr/local/openssl/misc# ls CA.pl CA.sh c_hash c_info c_issuer c_name der_chop root:/usr/local/openssl/misc# ./C

Re: Newbie question - Signing CSR's

2003-08-22 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003, Charles B Cranston wrote: > >>Based on a dialog that said "unknown critical extension" > > >I've never seen that dialog on Netscape, though I've seen IE produce it. > >What I'm saying is that stepup uses EKU (among other things) to identify > >its > >certificates Netscape 4

Re: Newbie question - Signing CSR's

2003-08-22 Thread Charles B Cranston
Based on a dialog that said "unknown critical extension" I've never seen that dialog on Netscape, though I've seen IE produce it. What I'm saying is that stepup uses EKU (among other things) to identify its certificates Netscape 4.[something] did support stepup so presumably it at least partially

OpenSSLers for Social Responsibility?

2003-08-22 Thread Charles B Cranston
I've seen several of these "help me I need to construct a security architecture and I don't understand the manuals and I'm too busy/ uneducated/blonde/whatever (:-) to take the time to LEARN enough to understand the manuals, so please just give me the commands that I can type in and satisfy my boss

Re: Newbie question - Signing CSR's

2003-08-22 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003, Charles B Cranston wrote: > Continuation of a dialog between Dr. Stephen Henson > and Charles B Cranston: > > B: These are some of the ones we found: > B: Netscape 4 will not tolerate an ExtendedKeyUsage extension. > > S: Hmmm. What makes you think that? EKU is *required* t

Re: Newbie question - Signing CSR's

2003-08-22 Thread Charles B Cranston
Well, I took dumps of the two certificates (and CSR) that Rohan provided, and the dates overlap, which might be the IE specific problem. At first it looked like the subject DNs were exactly the same between the two certificates, but upon closer examination the subject DN for the server certificate

Re: Newbie question - Signing CSR's

2003-08-22 Thread Charles B Cranston
Continuation of a dialog between Dr. Stephen Henson and Charles B Cranston: B: These are some of the ones we found: B: Netscape 4 will not tolerate an ExtendedKeyUsage extension. S: Hmmm. What makes you think that? EKU is *required* to handle "step up" S: (aka SGC, magic, 128 bit [yuck]) and Netsca

Re: Newbie question - Signing CSR's

2003-08-22 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003, Charles B Cranston wrote: > Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: > > >>These are some of the ones we found: > >>Netscape 4 will not tolerate an ExtendedKeyUsage extension. > > >Hmmm. What makes you think that? EKU is *required* to handle "step up" (aka > >SGC, magic, 128 bit [yuck]) a

Re: Newbie question - Signing CSR's

2003-08-22 Thread Charles B Cranston
Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: On Fri, Aug 22, 2003, Charles B Cranston wrote: Well, the sad answer to this question is yes. It turns out that in the design of SSL the client does the verification, so each client has its own little set of peccadillos. Indeed but if the OP means that you need a differ