Is securing a communication channel so simple?

2007-07-23 Thread Urjit Gokhale
Hello everyone, I have been writing code to secure my client-server application. It has been almost a year now, since I entered the world of OpenSSL. I have been reading about key exchange, symmetric ciphers, certificates etc. and for that matter I have used all this in the code through the API

Re: Passwords for S/MIME certs?

2007-07-23 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007, nobody wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:21:09 +0200 > "Dr. Stephen Henson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 23, 2007, nobody wrote: > > > > > > > > That isn't happening. I did create a password-protected private key > > > and none of the email clients ask for th

RE: domain check vs pubkey check

2007-07-23 Thread Jim Fox
You are in a place where theory and practice converge. The security model assumes you don't trust a CA (in the technical sense) if you don't trust the CA (in the normal sense). It is built around the assumption that a client's list of trusted CAs will be intelligentally managed to include only

RE: domain check vs pubkey check

2007-07-23 Thread David Schwartz
> Perhaps wandering a bit off-topic, but in practice many CAs which are > trusted by most browsers will issue certificates to whomever controls > a domain at the time the cert is issued, and so there's very little > difference between trusting DNS and trusting DNS+SSL for site > authentication (th

RE: Passwords for S/MIME certs?

2007-07-23 Thread David Schwartz
> The pkcs12 export command seems to want both the certificate and the > private key to be able to create a certificate containing the private > key which the key owner can use to verify signatures and decrypt mail > signed and encrypted using his public key. Decrypting mail requires the private

OpenSSL and Active Directory

2007-07-23 Thread José de Paula Eufrásio Júnior
So, I was given the mission of creating a small internal pki to authenticate SSL apaches and maybe some other little stuff. We have an Active Directory service already working, but not using the Certificate Services and etcetera. We choose to use openssl to generate the CA and certificates usi

Error opening file

2007-07-23 Thread Mark Corsi
I am receiving the following error message: 4488:error:060650664:digital envelope routines:EVP_DecryptFinal_ex:bad decrypt:.\crypto\evp\evp_enc.c:461: I found some postings referring to a bad passphrase and others referring to cross-platfom issues, but neither of these seem to be the case here.

Re: Passwords for S/MIME certs?

2007-07-23 Thread nobody
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:21:09 +0200 "Dr. Stephen Henson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2007, nobody wrote: > > > > > That isn't happening. I did create a password-protected private key > > and none of the email clients ask for the password when using it. > > > > Clients typically

Re: Passwords for S/MIME certs?

2007-07-23 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007, nobody wrote: > > That isn't happening. I did create a password-protected private key and > none of the email clients ask for the password when using it. > Clients typically ask you for the password when they import the PKCS#12 file. They use that to decrypt the key and st

Re: Passwords for S/MIME certs?

2007-07-23 Thread nobody
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:32:04 +0200 Goetz Babin-Ebell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > --On Juli 22, 2007 14:22:42 + nobody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:38:47 +0200 > > Goetz Babin-Ebell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> --On Freitag, Juli 20, 2007 14:49:54

Re: Passwords for S/MIME certs?

2007-07-23 Thread nobody
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:08:31 -0700 "David Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, I see this option when I import but I don't understand something > > more fundamental. Why doesn't the cert itself have any password > > protection? Is it because when I created it I specified the key > > pas

Re: need help:run des on mips32 and vxworks

2007-07-23 Thread Marek Marcola
Hello, > i meet a problem.when i plant the DES to my voip gateway for the > purpose of snmpv3 support, it shows decryption error. > My gateway is running on vxworks and processor is mips32. > i guess it should be something wrong with architecture concerned > choice, such as big(little)endian? >

proxy

2007-07-23 Thread Stefanus Hermawan
Hello, I find some sample for openssl client application which connect to server via ssl-proxy. Could i have some information? Thanks, ST. Hermawan