RE: EVP Envelope & PKI Confusion...

2007-04-03 Thread David Schwartz
> Thanks for the reply Goetz, appreciated! I believe with signing > the license > information (correct me if I am wrong), I have to provide the actually > license info/data (in plain clear text) along with the data > generated during > the signing process. The problem with this approach is, that >

Cannot convert private key file to PKCS8 with OpenSSL 0.9.7m compiled by VS2005

2007-04-03 Thread David Gillingham
About a year ago, I posted to this mailing list looking for information debugging errors I had trying to make stunnel operate in OpenSSL's FIPS mode. I was able to do this with the help with the aid of Dr. Henson. One of the suggestion he made to me was to convert my private keys into PKCS#8 for

Re: EVP Envelope & PKI Confusion...

2007-04-03 Thread Goetz Babin-Ebell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Usman Riaz schrieb: > I believe with signing the > license information (correct me if I am wrong), I have to provide the > actually license info/data (in plain clear text) along with the data > generated during the signing process. Yes. > The problem

Re: EVP Envelope & PKI Confusion...

2007-04-03 Thread Usman Riaz
Thanks for the reply Goetz, appreciated! I believe with signing the license information (correct me if I am wrong), I have to provide the actually license info/data (in plain clear text) along with the data generated during the signing process. The problem with this approach is, that providing t

Re: EVP Envelope & PKI Confusion...

2007-04-03 Thread Goetz Babin-Ebell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Usman, Usman Riaz schrieb: > Thanks for the reply Jean-Claude, appreciated! Actually the whole senario is > like this. I have a software that I am selling to the customers. I want to > encrypt the information (license info) with my private ke

Re: EVP Envelope & PKI Confusion...

2007-04-03 Thread Usman Riaz
Thanks for the reply Jean-Claude, appreciated! Actually the whole senario is like this. I have a software that I am selling to the customers. I want to encrypt the information (license info) with my private key, and the software will contain (embedded/hardcoded) public key (the way I would like to

Re: EVP Envelope & PKI Confusion...

2007-04-03 Thread Jean-Claude Repetto
Usman Riaz wrote : I want to use PKI to encrypt some data and send it to the customer to be decrypted. With my limitied knowledge about PKI, the data can be encrypted using "private key" and then lateron that encrypted data could be decrypted with the "public key". No, you encrypt