RE: HTTPS security model

2006-12-07 Thread David Schwartz
> OK, I'm going to take a humourous punch at what you just said; if > authentication and authorization are the same thing, why are both > required? Isn't one enough? Please make up your mind... If A and B are the same thing, either neither is required or both are required. Everything true about

RE: HTTPS security model

2006-12-07 Thread David Schwartz
> Proponents of the requested change believe that it is much > likelier to have > your communications observed by a passive attacker, than to have an active > attacker in the path that masquerades as e.g. "amazon.com". Not that the > later is impossible - just less probable and less frequent. Exc

Re: ocsp responder certificate generation documentation( reg)

2006-12-07 Thread Simon McMahon
howto make the OCSP certificate. This is the section I added to my openssl.cnf file. [ ocsp_cert ] # These extensions are added when 'ca' signs a request for an OCSP responder. basicConstraints=CA:FALSE extendedKeyUsage= OCSP Signing noCheck = yes ... Then as my other post said: add "-e

Using ITISSL: Fatal error in reader: itissl.build.config, line 79

2006-12-07 Thread Krishna Vennamaneni
Hi, I am trying to install ITISSL which is a java wrapper based on SSLEAY/OpenSSL. Ater I modifed the itissl.build.config file and ran make, I got the following error message. (Note I didn't modify the line 79) * make: Fatal error in reader: itissl.build.config, line 79: Unexpected end of line s

Re: TLS on pure-ftl

2006-12-07 Thread Marek Marcola
Hello, > I'm trying to use TLS on pure-ftp. > However, I'm unable to establish a secure connection... the debug > says > > [ERROR] SSL/TLS [/etc/ssl/private/pure-ftpd.pem]: error:14094412:SSL > routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert bad certificate This SSL alert means that your certificate is n

TLS on pure-ftl

2006-12-07 Thread Vitor Flausino
Hello all I'm trying to use TLS on pure-ftp. However, I'm unable to establish a secure connection... the debug says [ERROR] SSL/TLS [/etc/ssl/private/pure-ftpd.pem]: error:14094412:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert bad certificate Any ideas? Best regards, -vcf _

Re: RE: HTTPS security model

2006-12-07 Thread Kyle Hamilton
"I have seen this certificate before, and I assert that I want to allow it for limited purposes -- if only because I want to make sure that third-parties can't see what URLs I'm looking at. I do NOT want to post my credit card or other sites' login information to this site, so warn me if I do so.

Re: HTTPS security model

2006-12-07 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 5 Dec 2006 13:45:13 -0800, "David Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: davids> Authentication and authorization are the same thing. Generally speaking, that's incorrect, even if you might have a specific case where your statement applies. To take an example

RE: RE: HTTPS security model

2006-12-07 Thread Mouse
> > There are security paradigms such as SSH where you use "leap of > > faith": strictly you haven't authenticated the remote end, but you > > "know" that your peer is the other box next to you, you > > verified its PK fingerprint visually, so you approve ("authorize") > > that peer from now on.