Re: FIPS premain signature question

2011-05-14 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Fri, May 13, 2011, Todd Goyen wrote: > Can someone provide a brief explanation of the fips_premain.c functionality? > > I used it over a year ago and am a little hazy on the details. > > 1) A checksum of the executable was performed during the first compile step > of fipsld > 2) That checksu

Re: nesting CMS ContentInfo

2011-05-14 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Sat, May 14, 2011, Paul Koster wrote: > I'm looking using OpenSSL to realize "The CMS [...] allows multiple > encapsulations; one encapsulation envelope can be nested inside another." > from RFC5652. In particular it's the objective to have an 'enveloped-data' > encapsulating (encrypted) 'diges

Re: Private key generation

2011-05-14 Thread Zico
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 1:55 AM, Larry Bugbee wrote: > > > It is a matter of trust. If your server is serving a very small group that > will trust your self-signed cert, then fine. If however your server is to > be visited by a large number of people most of which won't know you, they > would l

Re: Private key generation

2011-05-14 Thread Larry Bugbee
On May 14, 2011, at 11:54 AM, Zico wrote: > Do we "actually" need a third party to make our certificate? I mean, we can > generate self-certified certificates, right? So, will my production machine > not run if I don't use CAcert.org or GoDaddy or Verisign? It is a matter of trust. If your se

nesting CMS ContentInfo

2011-05-14 Thread Paul Koster
I'm looking using OpenSSL to realize "The CMS [...] allows multiple encapsulations; one encapsulation envelope can be nested inside another." from RFC5652. In particular it's the objective to have an 'enveloped-data' encapsulating (encrypted) 'digested-data' (encapsulating 'data'). Am I right that

Re: Private key generation

2011-05-14 Thread Zico
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Dave Thompson wrote: > > The latter, as long as you transfer the private key from your machine > to the server along with the certificate from the CA. > > You do need to keep *both* machines (keygen and server) secure > and also the transfer process. It's usually a

FIPS premain signature question

2011-05-14 Thread Todd Goyen
Can someone provide a brief explanation of the fips_premain.c functionality? I used it over a year ago and am a little hazy on the details. 1) A checksum of the executable was performed during the first compile step of fipsld 2) That checksum was inserted into the binary during the second compil

Re: openssl config; full form of multi-valued field

2011-05-14 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 12:55:44PM +0400, A.B.COKO/\OB wrote: > > For example: > > subjectAltName=URI:ldap://somehost.com/CN=foo,OU=bar > > will produce an error but the equivalent form: > > subjectAltName=@subject_alt_section > > [subject_alt_section] > > subjectAltName=URI:ldap://somehost.co

openssl config; full form of multi-valued field

2011-05-14 Thread A.B.COKO/OB
Dear ladies/gentlemen, I'd like to clear up the situation with the feature described in manual http://openssl.org/docs/apps/x509v3_config.htm (attached below). I tried even that same example from the manual, with 2 different versions of open ssl (0.9.7 linux, 1.0.0 windows) -- in both cases this