Re: RC4-MD5 versus AES256-SHA

2008-06-06 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 10:56:56AM -0700, Ace wrote: > Thanks Victor! Yes the performance is critical. Another thing is, I just > checked the PKI handshakes with RC4 and was amazed to see the 75% of gain in > performance. Am I loosing something more than DH parameters in handshakes > when going wi

RE: 2038 date limit

2008-06-06 Thread David Schwartz
> On Thu, Jun 05, 2008, David Schwartz wrote: > > > > > 1) All routines are based on a uint64_t to hold the seconds > since the epoch. > > So you can still easily convert to/from time_t for in-range values. > > > > Well there has been a problem on some platforms in the past which > don't have a >

Re: RC4-MD5 versus AES256-SHA

2008-06-06 Thread Ace
Thanks Victor! Yes the performance is critical. Another thing is, I just checked the PKI handshakes with RC4 and was amazed to see the 75% of gain in performance. Am I loosing something more than DH parameters in handshakes when going with RC4? On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Victor Duchovni < [EM

Re: how to add an extension to a X509 certificate ?

2008-06-06 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008, delcour.pierre wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have a different problem now. I want to add a "X509v3 Authority Key > Identifier" field in a x509v3 certificate. > This field must have these three parts : > - keyid (the keyid of the issuer) > - dirname (the same string as issue

Re: how to add an extension to a X509 certificate ?

2008-06-06 Thread delcour.pierre
Hello everyone, I have a different problem now. I want to add a "X509v3 Authority Key Identifier" field in a x509v3 certificate. This field must have these three parts : - keyid (the keyid of the issuer) - dirname (the same string as issuer field) - serial (of issuer) int type = NID_authori

Re: RC4-MD5 versus AES256-SHA

2008-06-06 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 10:28:28PM -0700, Ace wrote: > PKI Handshakes are always the cause of worry when it comes to performance > but now I am facing problems even with the normal encryption. The data size > is around 2k. Woud you suggest using RC4-MD5? I never suggest optimizing something, unti

Re: 2038 date limit

2008-06-06 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008, David Schwartz wrote: > > 1) All routines are based on a uint64_t to hold the seconds since the epoch. > So you can still easily convert to/from time_t for in-range values. > Well there has been a problem on some platforms in the past which don't have a 64 bit integer type

Re: ldaps client and oracle internet directory

2008-06-06 Thread Marek . Marcola
Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/05/2008 03:01:14 PM: > I am trying to establish a connection from a openldap/openssl client to Oracle Internet > Directory. I know this isn't much to go on but will at least begin the conversation. I > am getting the following error on the client. I am ab

RE: 2038 date limit

2008-06-06 Thread Mark
> > Is there a plan to circumvent the limit, as opposed to just > saying stay > > within 2038 ? > Afaik, the only current solution is to switch to 64bit openssl. On a lot of platforms there are ways to use 64 bit time_t even on 32 bit OSs. This would look like a good interim solution IMHO. Mark

RE: 2038 date limit

2008-06-06 Thread sunil.kumarvvn
Hello Could you unsubscribe me from this mailing list. Regards Sunil. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of David Schwartz Sent: Fri 6/6/2008 10:09 AM To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: RE: 2038 date limit > Changing this is would involve including indepe