RE: Rand_status so slow on windows

2005-12-16 Thread Heikki Toivonen
Steven Reddie wrote: >Yes, that's right. The initialized flag is local to the module that it >is >in and is only set when calling RAND_status and I think one other >function >(maybe RAND_get_bytes). If you wish to modify the OpenSSL code >directly you >could get rid of the "if (!initialized)" tes

Re: Open SSL Symmetric Code Security with Apache2.0

2005-12-16 Thread Remo Inverardi
Ben, I'm hoping to get very basic instructions on how to create a client side certificate. What kind of certificates are you planing to hand out to your users? Do you want to trust an official certificate authority, or do you want to issue the certificates yourself? Desirably, I want to be

Re: openssl pkcs12 command line and UTF-8 encoded passwords

2005-12-16 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005, Harakiri wrote: > Hello, > > there seems to be an issue with the openssl pkcs12 > command and passwords which are UTF-8 encoded. > (OpenSSL 0.9.7d 17 Mar 2004) > [snip] > Is this a bug, a feature or a user error ? > The current behaviour of the pkcs12 utility is to effec

openssl pkcs12 command line and UTF-8 encoded passwords

2005-12-16 Thread Harakiri
Hello, there seems to be an issue with the openssl pkcs12 command and passwords which are UTF-8 encoded. (OpenSSL 0.9.7d 17 Mar 2004) Im using the option -passin file:mypin.txt When mypin.txt contains a password (i.e. german umlauts) which is UTF-8 encoded (bash: file mypin.txt returns : UTF-8 U