not finding /dev/random on Solaris due to O_NOFOLLOW in rand_unix.c

Greetings, I'm looking for a pointer to any discussion about why /dev/*random on unix is not consulted if the pathname is a symlink. Thanks, -sam __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Supp

Re: traffic sniff

On September 28, 2004 03:15 pm, Shen, Lei wrote: > Anyone knows how I can know how many negotiations is actually going on > by just sniff the raw tcp ip data? > > Is there any sniff package can "roughly" understand the ssl protocol. > I do not need to decode the actual message, I just want to know

traffic sniff

Anyone knows how I can know how many negotiations is actually going on by just sniff the raw tcp ip data? Is there any sniff package can "roughly" understand the ssl protocol. I do not need to decode the actual message, I just want to know stuff at the protocol level, like when a negotiation hap

Enforcing a cipher suite

Hello all, I'm relatively new to using and configuring openssl. I would like to enforce the use of one particular cipher suite to one of our servers. Is this possible? If so, how do you go about doing this? I noticed that when I connect a client to the server it tries to use the "most secure" e

AIX OpenSSL 9.7d accept fail, peek_last_error says 0, info_callback ret is -1

I'm digging into an AIX SSL_accept failure with no useful error information:  Here's the client/server side state change sequence. where and ret are the corresponding values of these arguments given to the info_callback function.   These state entries were collected using the info_callback routine

error with wrapper

hi! i have a python wrapper around OpenSSL and it builds fine. but when i import it, it throws the following error ImportError: ld.so.1: python: fatal: relocation error: file ./_testssl.so: symbol OPENSSL_add_all_algorithms_noconf: referenced symbol not found it seems to be coming from the Open

OpenSSL Compilation Issue (for -mips3)

Hi All, We are facing a compilation issue which building OpenSSL for -mips3 and mcpu=r4000 for Big Endian. We are using MontaVista supplied gcc and bin utils. GCC Version : 2.95.3 LD Version : 2.10.91 AR Version : 2.10.91 RANLIB Version : 2.10.91 The follo

error building openssl

hi! i am trying to build openssl 0.9.7d on a solaris. configure works fine. but when i do make, i get the following error bash$ make making all in crypto... make[1]: Entering directory `/n/filer12/u2/hons2004/abrar1/bin/openssl-0.9.7d/crypto' ( echo "#ifndef MK1MF_BUILD"; \ echo ' /* auto-genera