RE: General question about documentation

2009-11-24 Thread Rene Hollan
Crypto is hard... mostly because X509 is a dog's breakfast of committee compromisitis. That said, openssl docs should AT LEAST address one who is familiar with X509. -Original Message- From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org [mailto:owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org] On Behalf Of Tim Ward S

Re: General question about documentation

2009-11-24 Thread Graham Leggett
Tim Ward wrote: > Yes indeed. This is why I often go for commercial software in preference > fo "free" - it took me a day and a half to get a working Visual Studio > 2005 debug DLL built, at a cost to my client of ... er ... well ... none > of anyone else's business really, but lots more than any

Re: General question about documentation

2009-11-24 Thread Tim Ward
From: "Randy Turner" From the length of some of the threads I've read in the past, a number of developers seem to be burning a lot of development hours "guessing" at how functions are supposed to work Yes indeed. This is why I often go for commercial software in preference fo "free" - it too

General question about documentation

2009-11-24 Thread Randy Turner
I would like to post a general observation regarding users of the OpenSSL toolkit. A number of the questions hitting this list, are somewhat detailed, and sometimes deal with interesting corner cases regarding the use of the toolkit. However, a large number of questions hitting this list have

Re: Huh?

2009-11-24 Thread Kyle Hamilton
Why is the OpenSSL project using GlobalSign Domain Validation? You'd almost do better going with startssl.com, since theirs automatically include sAN with the name of the host and the name of the domain itself. Oh, and they're free. And trusted by everyone except Opera. -Kyle H On Tue, Nov 24,

PKCS 1 API question

2009-11-24 Thread Anand Patel
Hello, I need to generated PKCS#1 structure from a message hash that I have calculated. Can some one please point me to OpenSSL API calls that does this. Thanks in advance..! -Anand

Re: Huh?

2009-11-24 Thread John R Pierce
Ivan Ristic wrote: By the way, it's a bit ironic that the SSL certificate is not valid when accessed through openssl.org (without the www prefix): https://www.ssllabs.com/ssldb/analyze.html?d=www.openssl.org I like the comment there. "Confusing". yes... openssl is confusing. :D _

Re: Huh?

2009-11-24 Thread Ivan Ristic
By the way, it's a bit ironic that the SSL certificate is not valid when accessed through openssl.org (without the www prefix): https://www.ssllabs.com/ssldb/analyze.html?d=www.openssl.org On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Victor Duchovni wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:41:09PM -0700, The Do

Re: Huh?

2009-11-24 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:41:09PM -0700, The Doctor wrote: > no http://www.opensl.org . http://openssl.org/ -- Viktor. __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing

Re: Huh?

2009-11-24 Thread John R Pierce
The Doctor wrote: What gives? no http://www.opensl.org . No ftp://ftp.openssl.org/ ? they work here for me, except the first one is http://www.openssl.org/ and not http://www.opensl.org/ as you pasted. __

Huh?

2009-11-24 Thread The Doctor
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