Re: Where to store client PEM certificates for an application

2009-01-01 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 06:26:49PM -0800, David Schwartz wrote: > > Edward Diener wrote: > > > > 1) You need someone to confirm that having a client use a > > > known-compromised > > > private key to authenticate over SSL is no worse than the > > > client using no > > > key at all. It seems to m

RE: Where to store client PEM certificates for an application

2009-01-01 Thread David Schwartz
Edward Diener wrote: > > 1) You need someone to confirm that having a client use a > > known-compromised > > private key to authenticate over SSL is no worse than the > > client using no > > key at all. It seems to me like you'd almost have to try to make this a > > problem, but who knows -- mayb

Re: How to check if the certificate is self signed

2009-01-01 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 02:05:10AM +0300, Taras P. Ivashchenko wrote: > Hello, list! > > I found in archive [0] discussion about how to check if > certificate is self-signed. But I can't find there solution how can I do it > from application. > > At the moment I need to check this (if given cer

Re: How to check if the certificate is self signed

2009-01-01 Thread Taras P. Ivashchenko
Hello, list! I found in archive [0] discussion about how to check if certificate is self-signed. But I can't find there solution how can I do it from application. At the moment I need to check this (if given certificate is self-signed) from application I developed. And now I simply compare Issu

Re: Interesting article

2009-01-01 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 09:16:06AM -0800, dan_mit...@ymp.gov wrote: > Don't you have to check the root CA certificate too?? No, in fact one specifically must not, because the root CA cert is self-signed and there are no chosen-prefix attacks against the self-signed root CA. Even if you could get

Re: Where to store client PEM certificates for an application

2009-01-01 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Thu January 1 2009, Edward Diener wrote: > Michael S. Zick wrote: > > On Thu January 1 2009, Edward Diener wrote: > >> Perhaps your seeing this shows why I was at least nominally concerned > >> about the MySQL client having its own public key-private key > >> certificates. I have tried to find

Re: Where to store client PEM certificates for an application

2009-01-01 Thread Edward Diener
David Schwartz wrote: Edward Diener wrote: Perhaps your seeing this shows why I was at least nominally concerned about the MySQL client having its own public key-private key certificates. I have tried to find out what actual use the client's public key-private key has in MySQL, from either the

Re: Where to store client PEM certificates for an application

2009-01-01 Thread Edward Diener
Michael S. Zick wrote: On Thu January 1 2009, Edward Diener wrote: Perhaps your seeing this shows why I was at least nominally concerned about the MySQL client having its own public key-private key certificates. I have tried to find out what actual use the client's public key-private key has i

Openssl benchmark numbers

2009-01-01 Thread Nagaraj Bagepalli
Hi, Has anyone done openssl performance benchmarks on Intel's latest Nehalem processor a.k.a. Core i7? Since there are lot of improvements in this processor, wanted to see how openssl's performance improves. Appreciate if you can share your experience on this? Thanks, Nagaraj

RE: Where to store client PEM certificates for an application

2009-01-01 Thread David Schwartz
Edward Diener wrote: > Perhaps your seeing this shows why I was at least nominally concerned > about the MySQL client having its own public key-private key > certificates. I have tried to find out what actual use the client's > public key-private key has in MySQL, from either the client or the >

Re: Where to store client PEM certificates for an application

2009-01-01 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Thu January 1 2009, Michael S. Zick wrote: > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/grant.html > On Thu January 1 2009, Edward Diener wrote: > > Perhaps your seeing this shows why I was at least nominally concerned > > about the MySQL client having its own public key-private key > > certific

Re: Where to store client PEM certificates for an application

2009-01-01 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Thu January 1 2009, Edward Diener wrote: > Perhaps your seeing this shows why I was at least nominally concerned > about the MySQL client having its own public key-private key > certificates. I have tried to find out what actual use the client's > public key-private key has in MySQL, from eit

Re: Where to store client PEM certificates for an application

2009-01-01 Thread Edward Diener
David Schwartz wrote: I can understand your summary quite clearly. Great. Suppose the server encrypts data it sends to the client and the client needs to decrypt that data. This is the case when my client SELECTs data from the MySQL database. Does this need a different sequence than the seque

Re: base64 decoding using an s_mem chain

2009-01-01 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Thu January 1 2009, Frank B. Brokken wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Thanks for your postings in reply to my base64 decoding problem. I must admit > that I saw your first posting only after sending out the reply to William, so > let's correct that here :-) > > In your last posting you wrote: > > > Are

Re: base64 decoding using an s_mem chain

2009-01-01 Thread Frank B. Brokken
Hi Mike, Thanks for your postings in reply to my base64 decoding problem. I must admit that I saw your first posting only after sending out the reply to William, so let's correct that here :-) In your last posting you wrote: > Are you stripping the bytes that might appear in the stream > that do

Re: FIPS_mode_set(1) call Fails

2009-01-01 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008, Chikkanagappa, Manjula wrote: > Hello Everyone! > > > > I have FIPS 1.2 modules and 0.9.8 stable development version > (12/30/2008) OpenSSL modules. I am invoking FIPS_mode_set(1) in my > application. The FIPS_mode_set(1) returns 0 all the time. I have written > a small

MD5 hash to /etc/shadow MD5 crypt() conversion

2009-01-01 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
(I resend message, as it appears as previous not hit the list) Hello, I need convert LDAP accounts to passwd/shadow. Problem is password conversion: from LDAP DB I obtain some as (I know that plain password is string "heslo"): userPassword:: e01ENX1sVjJ3dUI3eG1KdEtUZjZ1Z0dHcHBnPT0= value is bas

Re: Interesting article

2009-01-01 Thread Dan_Mitton
Don't you have to check the root CA certificate too?? Please respond to openssl-users@openssl.org Sent by:owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org To: openssl-users@openssl.org cc: (bcc: Dan Mitton/YD/RWDOE) Subject:Re: Interesting article LSN: Not Relevant - Not Privileged User

Problem while converting between pem and pfx format -- help

2009-01-01 Thread Asish M Madhu
Hello All, I am using openssl version OpenSSL 0.9.8a 11 Oct 2005 The problem i am facing is when converting .pem certificate( having both private and public key ) to .pfx format as below i am getting an error # *[as...@asish todel]$ openssl pkcs12 -export -out

FIPS_mode_set(1) call Fails

2009-01-01 Thread Chikkanagappa, Manjula
Hello Everyone! I have FIPS 1.2 modules and 0.9.8 stable development version (12/30/2008) OpenSSL modules. I am invoking FIPS_mode_set(1) in my application. The FIPS_mode_set(1) returns 0 all the time. I have written a small test program with just FIPS_mode_set(1) call. And the call still fail