Re: PKCS#11 and openssl: how to get a certificate onto the smart card?

2004-03-23 Thread francesco.petruzzi
Only for example: You must open a session first. If certificate are stored in private space you must also login. int scan_PKCS11_cert() { X509 *crt=NULL; CK_BYTE *p=NULL; CK_RV rv; CK_OBJECT_HANDLE hCert = CK_INVALID_HANDLE; int ret=0; CK_ULONG Matches; CK_ULONG ulCe

Re: how to generate one rsa key which size is 256 or less than 256

2004-03-23 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 24 Mar 2004 13:37:06 +0800, "linux guy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: linuxguy> thx,I am sorry for that i misdescribe my problem,the linuxguy> fact is that I can generate 256 RSA key,but I can't create linuxguy> certificate with this key,the wrong mesg is as bel

Re: how to generate one rsa key which size is 256 or less than 256

2004-03-23 Thread linux guy
thx,I am sorry for that i misdescribe my problem,the fact is that I can generate 256 RSA key,but I can't create certificate with this key,the wrong mesg is as below: 20239:error:04075070:rsa routines:RSA_sign:digest too big for rsa key:rsa_sign.c:116: 20239:error:0D072006:asn1 encoding routines:ASN

Re: how to generate one rsa key which size is 256 or less than 256

2004-03-23 Thread Ng Pheng Siong
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 11:35:34AM +0800, linux guy wrote: > openssl's genrsa can't do this work,any other tool to do this work? If you must, Python 2.3.3 (#2, Mar 7 2004, 15:57:59) [GCC 2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD]] on freebsd4 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information

RE: RSA Key Uniqueness

2004-03-23 Thread David Schwartz
> Hi Andrew, > > How unique is it? Is it statistically improbable that I could > > generate the > > same key twice? > If you have properly seeded your random generator, generated > (RSA) keys should > be quite unique. It doesn't matter. Breaking an RSA key basically involves factoring a

Re: how to generate one rsa key which size is 256 or less than 256

2004-03-23 Thread Rich Salz
> yes,I am sure,can you give me any advice?:) Drop SSL. -- Rich Salz Chief Security Architect DataPower Technology http://www.datapower.com XS40 XML Security Gateway http://www.datapower.com/products/xs40.html XML Security Overview http://www.datapower.com/xmldev/xml

Re: how to generate one rsa key which size is 256 or less than 256

2004-03-23 Thread linux guy
yes,I am sure,can you give me any advice?:) - Original Message - From: Rich Salz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 22:47:40 -0500 (EST) To: linux guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: how to generate one rsa key which size is 256 or less than 256 > > openssl's genrsa can't do this

Re: how to generate one rsa key which size is 256 or less than 256

2004-03-23 Thread Rich Salz
> openssl's genrsa can't do this work,any other tool to do this work? Are you really sure that the RSA work is so great that you need such a ridiculously small key size? The security is so weak perhaps you should just drop SSL altogether. /r$ -- Rich Salz Chief Security

how to generate one rsa key which size is 256 or less than 256

2004-03-23 Thread linux guy
openssl's genrsa can't do this work,any other tool to do this work? thx -- __ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze __

RSA key which size is less than 256 ...

2004-03-23 Thread linux guy
our our webserver is using openSSL to provide HTTPS service, we create a self-singed certificates with one 1024 bits private key, so the server will be slow to handle the communication I wanna decrease the size of the private key,but openssl can't generate the key which size is less than 256? s

RSA key which size is less than 256 ...

2004-03-23 Thread linux guy
our our webserver is using openSSL to provide HTTPS service, we create a self-singed certificates with one 1024 bits private key, so the server will be slow to handle the communication I wanna decrease the size of the private key,but openssl can't generate the key which size is less than 256? s

Re: Securing small UDP transmissions

2004-03-23 Thread Rich Salz
> Well, what I meant by anonymous was that they're connection-less, and > with the nature of UDP, the tracker can't be quite sure that they are > who they claim to be. Anonymous has nothing to do with connection-less or not. If the server is going to decode the packets that the client encrypts, t

Re: getting started

2004-03-23 Thread Bernhard Froehlich
GoochRules! wrote: [...] After reading up on PKI, I'm concerned that OpenSSL is not a solution to my problem. I suppose all I really need is a mechanism to encrypt/decrypt messages based upon public/private keys. Does OpenSSL do anything like this? To realize this with OpenSSL I'd set up my o

Re: Securing small UDP transmissions

2004-03-23 Thread Axel Andersson
On Mar 23, 2004, at 16:10, Rich Salz wrote: how can I properly secure small anonymous UDP transmissions? I don't know what you mean by this. Are you sure you mean anonymous? Well, what I meant by anonymous was that they're connection-less, and with the nature of UDP, the tracker can't be quite s

Re: getting started

2004-03-23 Thread GoochRules!
On Mar 22, 2004, at 2:36 PM, Bernhard Froehlich wrote: GoochRules! schrieb: Greetings, I'm a newbie with this ssl stuff, what I know I learned from using ssh, so please correct me where my assumptions are wrong. I'm attempting to create a client/server environment where the identity of the ser

generalTime format

2004-03-23 Thread Claus Nagel
hello, according to the following asn.1 structure, a time string storing validity information in a x509 certificate can be given in two ways: [snip] Validity ::= SEQUENCE { notBefore Time, notAfterTime } Time ::= CHOICE { utcTime

Re: Dynamic Engine

2004-03-23 Thread Geoff Thorpe
Hi there, On March 22, 2004 11:02 am, Nelson Gamazo Sánchez wrote: > I'm trying to code my own engine but I have some questions after > reading the .pod, samples (demos and built-in) and openssl code. If any > of these questions have already answered please send reference. > > 1-Could anybody

PKCS#11 and openssl: how to get a certificate onto the smart card?

2004-03-23 Thread Andreas Feldner
Hi, probably I'm overlooking something obvious: I have a smart card that can be accessed through a suitable PKCS#11 library and I have a working sort-of-CA using openssl. I know how to generate key pairs on the smart card and (hopefully) how to read the public key off the card. But how do I get

Re: Simpel keystore for use in Windows?

2004-03-23 Thread francesco.petruzzi
You can use PKCS12. Using libeay you can create: PKCS12 *PKCS12_create(char *pass, char *name, EVP_PKEY *pkey, X509 *cert, STACK_OF(X509) *ca, int nid_key, int nid_cert, int iter, int mac_iter, int keytype); save: int i2d_PKCS12_fp(FILE *fp, PKCS12 *p12); read: PKCS12 *d2i_PKCS12_

Simpel keystore for use in Windows?

2004-03-23 Thread Hellan.Kim KHE
I need a simpel keystore, maybe containing a users private key, users certificate and 4-5 public certificates. I'm looking for some standard format for saving these keys/certificates to a single password protected file. At the moment I need it for a Windows environment, but I don't want to use W