Re: Platinum Sponsorship by Huawei

2014-05-29 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > Then again, many developers do have a social handicap - that's why > they are so good a developer. that sweeping generalisation is probably worse than calling one person a troll! ;-) alan __ OpenSSL Project

Re: SSL Root CA and Intermediate CA Certs.

2014-04-23 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > > I am new to SSL/TLS Certificates. Please help me understand what is the > > difference between ROOT CA Certs and Intermediate Certs or Chain Certs. I > > will appreciate if i can refer to some books or tutorials to know about > > SSL/TLS technology. > > The closest thing you'll probabl

Re: GoldBug.sf.net - Secure Instant Messenger

2013-08-01 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > All in all, I am not impressed. ..but the joy of OpenSource projects is that you can help to fix these things and make it better! ;-) (ps thats just tongue in cheek comment...i have no affiliation/link to this project and havent seen the code/sf.net page or used the tool) alan _

Re: Spam on this list

2009-06-02 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > >> I would like to request that this list become moderated as it is now > >> inundated by spam. I have a strict quota for email lists at work (which > >> also > >> includes the spam) and after the quota is up I get no more emails for > >> the rest of the month. Last month it stopped on the

Re: I want you to do my homework for me.

2009-05-04 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > No. I was trying to be polite, excuse me? This is a general open public mailing list for OpenSSL. this sort of abusive language has no place here - its read by a mixture of professional, non-professional, adults, children, researchers, computer users etc. foul language has its place in

Re: Unable to load config info from

2008-09-02 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > Folks, > I know this a well known issue, but still didnt find a solution. > When generating the key pair certificates, running the command > openssl req -new -key mydomain.com.key -out mydomain.com.csr) I received and > error message as > follows: > > Unable to load config info from > /

Re: Secure UDP data recommendations

2008-08-22 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > Basically our client software is just sending out characters and should not > be bothered about anything else. I've read about openvpn which uses TCP to > bootstrap a secure UDP connection. OpenVPN can also run on just UDP too. alan

Re: Basic question on version number..

2008-08-22 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > Why the latest version is still 0.9.x, why it hasn't bumped up to 1.x in > last 8 years. Generally 1.x defines a stable version. hmm, I personally would not get hung up on '1.x is stable' - having used dozens of platforms and software versions to run network delivery solutions I can tell y

Re: Removal from mailing list

2008-06-18 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > > if you find out? PLEASE LET ME KNOW? HELP! if you read instructions this is the first email you ever got from this list: Welcome to the openssl-users mailing list! Please save this message for future reference. Thank you. If you ever want to remove yourself from this ma

Re: 2038 date limit

2008-06-05 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > This problem is much bigger than OpenSSL. In fact, it is probably bigger > than Y2K because it will involve changes to most flavors of the Unix > operating system. It is neither trivially solved, nor an unknown problem. move to 64bit - thats the only way to go beyond 2038 from the unix ep

Re: 2038 date limit

2008-06-05 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > When trying to make a certificate for 30 years seems you run into the > 2038 date limitation. Seems the code converts date to a signed int in > seconds since 1970 and now that we are within 30 years of the 2038 limit > we get hit by it. Using a date of (30 * 365) from now: thats the same dat

Re: [!! SPAM] RE: Re[2]: Vista 64 bit

2008-01-02 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > OpenSSL is *NOT* intended to be 'used' by people who use programs that use > it. It is intended to be used by programs and by people who make them. I'll stick my 0.01 euro cent in here and state i disagree with this hypothesis. whether you are a user via a 3rd party program (as almost all

Re: How to get rid of this message :"Enter PEM pass phrase" ?

2007-05-15 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > 1. rpm -e openssl ( to install the already installed openssl-0.9.8b) 1) reinstall openssl package that came with Fedora. unless you are going to rebuild all the packages that depend on it you will face a nightmare 2) strip off the password from your .pem file - if you really dont want to m

Re: 2 is not prime?

2007-03-05 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > $ openssl version > OpenSSL 0.9.7f 22 Mar 2005 > $ openssl prime 2 > 2 is not prime > > But.. 2 is prime right? correct. but its the only even prime number - hence its an odd prime number! ;-) perhaps this fact/quirk is why its not known as prime? alan ___

Re: speed test with cavium engine

2007-01-05 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > Hi, > > I am trying to compare the performance benefits in using hardware > accelerator, and am experimenting the CAVIUM SSL card. > > I am comparing the results between 'speed' and 'speed -engine cavium', and i > do not see any difference in numbers. > I do see the message 'cavium engine s

Re: Thunderbird delays..."was 0 bit encryption?"

2006-11-18 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > My suggestion is to double check DNS resolving system. > Such long delays when connecting may be caused be > problems with reverse DNS. > On Linux you may check this with: > > $ dig some.domain.name > $ dig -x some.ip.number > > If (for examle) sendmail checks some fields in certificate >

Re: Can SSL work with IP Address instead of FQDN?

2005-08-10 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > when typing https://ipaddress:443/index.html into a browser > it cannot find the page and goes back to > > https://ipaddress port 443 *IS* https. the browser sees the one and same. alan __ OpenSSL Project

Re: [ANNOUNCE] OpenSSL 0.9.8 released

2005-07-06 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > I would like to personally thank the entire OpenSSL team on behalf of > everyone using OpenSSL in any form. You guys do a terrific job with > this project and this latest release is, well, wow. The number of > changes in this release are insane. Keep up the great work! ditto. but I h

Re: Downgrade OpenSSL

2005-04-20 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > The shared libraries /lib/libcrypto.so.3 and /usr/lib/libssl.so.3 are still > from the newer Version. sounds like they are the world version - what lives in /usr/local/lib ? (you did compile with the 'shared' configure option, yes? alan _

Re: Using OpenSSL with 'ubsec' hardware on FreeBSD

2005-04-19 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > Which version of openssl is the ports tree based on? I don't know about > the world version, but the problem with the ports one seems to be (so > far) just a matter of paths. I don't "do bsd", but I assume that tweaking > with LD_LIBRARY_PATH or some such thing ought to be able to convinc

Using OpenSSL with 'ubsec' hardware on FreeBSD

2005-04-18 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
hi, I was wondering if any folk who are using OpenSSL with Broadcom 582x devices (ubsec) on FreeBSD could help me out. We have taken such a card out of a Fedora Core 2 machine (where it was working with the help of the 'hwcrypto' RPM) We've compiled FreeBSD so that the card is detected (added d