RE: starting point for learning to use OpenSSL

2011-10-08 Thread Jeremy Farrell
From: Mithun Kumar Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 5:54 PM Hello All, I want to use OpenSSL for the application that i am writing. Could someone direct me what is the best starting point. I tried Google but failed to find any examples. PS: I hope i am posting on the right forum. -Thanks mithu

Re: Cert VU#864643

2011-10-08 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Diffenderfer, Randy wrote: > How worried should I be about the contents of this? > > http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/864643   (published 2011-9-27) > > Is this the topic that flitted across the board a week or so ago? SSL_OP_ALL includes SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAG

Re: Differences between RSA and ECDSA - Conceptual and Practical

2011-10-08 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 6:39 AM, Rick Lopes de Souza wrote: > Another thing that i know is that RSA can only sign things that are smaller > than the size of the key used. No - you can sign a message of arbitrary length - a suitable message digest is what is encrypted (well, decrypted) in the RSA

Differences between RSA and ECDSA - Conceptual and Practical

2011-10-08 Thread Rick Lopes de Souza
Hi all, This week i was in doubt to implemment some methods to sign using OpenSSL. I know that RSA needs the hash algorithm to do the padding scheme and ECDSA doesn't need. Another thing that i know is that RSA can only sign things that are smaller than the size of the key used. I can imagine that

RE: TLS false start support on Openssl

2011-10-08 Thread Ritesh Rekhi
Hi Richard, Thanks for the reply, I did some research and found that there is an openssl patch which can get me this option, I tried it in my lab and it works also. Here is the location of patch http://technotes.googlecode.com/git-history/3bea6d3d226c878577c0d520784e14f2c8efbe1c/openssl-1.0.0d

starting point for learning to use OpenSSL

2011-10-08 Thread Mithun Kumar
Hello All, I want to use OpenSSL for the application that i am writing. Could someone direct me what is the best starting point. I tried Google but failed to find any examples. PS: I hope i am posting on the right forum. -Thanks mithun

Re: strong TLS connections

2011-10-08 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Kristen J. Webb wrote: > > My understanding is that a TLS connection with a server cert > only identifies the server to the client.  This leads to a MiTM > attack, where the mitm can impersonate the client because the server > has not verified the client. Your unde