RE: max sessions

2004-07-29 Thread David Schwartz
> After even more studying of the sys/types.h header, I could see a > MAJOR problem with the way fd_set is defined. It appears that > this structure is defined as a wrapper around an array of bytes, > the number of which determined by the FD_SETSIZE macro. The > length of this is computed at COMPI

Re: max sessions

2004-07-29 Thread Joseph Bruni
After even more studying of the sys/types.h header, I could see a MAJOR problem with the way fd_set is defined. It appears that this structure is defined as a wrapper around an array of bytes, the number of which determined by the FD_SETSIZE macro. The length of this is computed at COMPILE TIME.

Re: max sessions

2004-07-29 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On July 29, 2004 02:20 pm, Joseph Bruni wrote: > The other thing I noticed was that (according to the man page for > select()) the results of the FD_ macros are undefined if the descriptor > value is greater than FD_SETSIZE, which is 1024 on my system. I find > this odd since the hard limit of the

Unable to build latest 2 stable snapshots under Suse 9.1

2004-07-29 Thread Harakiri
official version - you are unable to encrypt with the rpm within the DVD) since march. BTW : Sorry if this had already been posted today, i wasnt subscribed and needed to resubscribe. Thanks ! making all in fips/rand... make[2]: Entering directory `/root/openssl-f-0.9.7-stable-SNAP-20040729/fips/rand

Problem with "./CA.sh -sign"

2004-07-29 Thread desantis
Hi all,I installed OpenSSL 0.9.6c on a debian 3.0r2 and I created a my CA and twocertificates for a server and a client. Now I want to create anothercertificate for a client but when I run :#>./CA.sh -signthe result:#>Uisng configuration from /usr/lib/ssl/openssl.cnf#>Enter PEM pass phrease

Problem with "./CA.sh -sign"

2004-07-29 Thread desantis
Hi all,I installed OpenSSL 0.9.6c on a debian 3.0r2 and I created a my CA and twocertificates for a server and a client. Now I want to create anothercertificate for a client but when I run :#>./CA.sh -signthe result:#>Uisng configuration from /usr/lib/ssl/openssl.cnf#>Enter PEM pass phrease

RE: max sessions

2004-07-29 Thread Joseph Bruni
Regarding the max number of sessions problem. I think I've figured out what was going wrong, but now I need some insight. I increased the Session Cache as you suggested to (40 * 1024) without any change in behavior. It turns out is was a bug in my code (whew!). After doing some more debugging I

Re: Subject string to X509_NAME

2004-07-29 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004, Pablo J Royo wrote: > Hello: > > I have a subject string in its common format: > > C=XX /O=xxx /OU=yy /CN=z...etc > > and I´d like to create a X509_NAME object with it, in order to handle its > different fields (X509_NAME_ENTRY) correctly. > Is there an

Subject string to X509_NAME

2004-07-29 Thread Pablo J Royo
Hello: I have a subject string in its common format: C=XX /O=xxx /OU=yy /CN=z...etc and I´d like to create a X509_NAME object with it, in order to handle its different fields (X509_NAME_ENTRY) correctly. Is there any function in OpenSSL X509 interface to do this (as easy as p

Re: max sessions?

2004-07-29 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Wed, Jul 28, 2004, Joseph Bruni wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm developing an application that is used as a messaging hub for > thousands of users. The idea was that the users would maintain their > SSL connections indefinitely because one would never know when a > message was to be delivered a