Re: FIPS and new releases of openssl

2008-11-10 Thread Steve Marquess
Justin A wrote: Hi Steve Marquess, What's the equivalent file for fipscanister.o on windows..? Let's see ... for the OpenSSL FIPS Object Module v1.1.1/1.1.2 it's fipscanister.o. For the upcoming v1.2 it will be fipscanister.lib. -Steve M. -- Steve Marquess Open Source Software Institute

Re: handshake/connection errors

2008-11-10 Thread csross
csross wrote: > > I'm running solaris openssl 097l and I upgraded to 098h. I see errors in > the logs that seem like debugging errors that showed up, but seemed to > happen in both versions I believe. I am using a certificate from another > machine to test for this server. I believe the erro

Re: handshake/connection errors

2008-11-10 Thread csross
csross wrote: > > I'm running solaris openssl 097l and I upgraded to 098h. I see errors in > the logs that seem like debugging errors that showed up, but seemed to > happen in both versions I believe. I am using a certificate from another > machine to test for this server. I believe the erro

Re: RAND_egd() blocking -- despite contract that states otherwise?

2008-11-10 Thread Lutz Jaenicke
Ben Sandee wrote: > Hello Lutz and thank you for your informed response. > > Unfortunately I don't know exactly which version of prngd was being > used because I'm not the first-tier responder for this issue. What > I'm doing is preparing a portfolio of information so that we can > analyze exactly

Re: client crash or network issue?

2008-11-10 Thread Md Lazreg
Thank you all for you good advices. I think the SO_KEEPALIVE is THE thing I was looking for! Thanks Ger:). Do not worry I will make sure I read enough about it:). Thanks again. On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Ger Hobbelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First of all: heed David's [Schwartz] advice

Getting "certificate unknown" alert when ocsp request is enabled

2008-11-10 Thread Dr . Nils . Knafla
Hi there, We have problems to establish a ssl handshake between an openssl client and a Radware Appxcel server if the ocsp checking for the client certificate is enabled in AppXcel. If ocsp checking is disabled, the ssl handshake can be established. Problem: SSL3 alert read:fatal:certificate

Re: RAND_egd() blocking -- despite contract that states otherwise?

2008-11-10 Thread Ben Sandee
Hello Lutz and thank you for your informed response. Unfortunately I don't know exactly which version of prngd was being used because I'm not the first-tier responder for this issue. What I'm doing is preparing a portfolio of information so that we can analyze exactly what may have happened and h

Re: Strange compile problems

2008-11-10 Thread Evgeniy Ivanov
Oops, it was caused by wine (I use windows headers and libs). wineg++ helped me to solve the problem. Sorry for bothering. Evgeniy Ivanov wrote: > Hi list, > I use the latest stable openssl version and try to compile my > application and get a lot of such errors: > In file included from /usr/local

OpenSSL API to get the value of Authority Information Access field

2008-11-10 Thread Aravinda babu
Hi all, Is there any OpenSSL API which will give me the value of Authority Information Access in extensions ? If not , then how to get this value from a X509 structure Thanks in advance, Aravind.

Re: RAND_egd() blocking -- despite contract that states otherwise?

2008-11-10 Thread Lutz Jaenicke
Ben Sandee wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm investigating a case where a customer's prngd service was > blocking, which by itself is not supposed to happen AFAIK. This was > causing a hard-to-diagnose startup hang for our code that uses > OpenSSL. The call to RAND_egd() was blocking in a call to read()

Re: Encryption algorithm from cipher texts

2008-11-10 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Fri November 7 2008, Chris Cheung wrote: > Hi all, > > my question may not be directly related to OpenSSL, but I don't know > where else better to seek for answer, so... > It is a general question - Give it a bit of thought, the answer should be obvious - If the encryption is "perfect" then

ssl_read crashing on read! don't know why?

2008-11-10 Thread brgurung
Hi, I'm in need of an urgent help :o( ... I'm trying to setup dtls connection (with openssl-0.9.8g). I am using non-blocking socket and managed to complete handshake between client-server. However whenever I try to read (I'm using libevent to handle asynchronous events) using SSL_read it c

Encryption algorithm from cipher texts

2008-11-10 Thread Chris Cheung
Hi all, my question may not be directly related to OpenSSL, but I don't know where else better to seek for answer, so... I'm curious to know, given a number of cipher texts, how hard it is to know, if at all possible, what algorithm was used to generate that? Chris _

Re: OpenSSL API which build the chain from a peer certificate

2008-11-10 Thread Douglas E. Engert
Aravinda babu wrote: Hi all, First of all thanks for all of your suggestions and information.I got a clear idea of how to do the required thing. I forgot to mention one thing. We are making one library for certificate management which will be used by different applications.In that library

Re: RAND_egd() blocking -- despite contract that states otherwise?

2008-11-10 Thread Deron Meranda
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Kyle Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There should be some means of determining how much entropy is actually > in the information obtained from the EGD. The return values should > reflect the number of bits stirred in, with 0 being "we haven't gotten > anything