Re: OpenSSL, Apache 2 and RSA key sizes

2006-08-23 Thread Charlie Lenahan
George Adams wrote: 1) Why isn't everyone using stronger public/private key pairs? Nobody who seems to offer SSL certs (Verisign, Thawte, GoDaddy, Comodo) tells their customers to generate 2048-bit keys with OpenSSL. Obviously they're not worried - why not? It's really up to you to determi

Re: APIs for generating a CSR

2006-08-21 Thread Charlie Lenahan
Look at X509_REQ_* functions. Subash Kalbarga wrote: Hi all I am trying to fit a CSR generating capability into a small footprint embedded system. Note that I already have the openssl library in there Openssl is about 300K in size which I want to avoid copying over if I can just for generatin

cert chain building post tls handshake

2006-07-25 Thread Charlie Lenahan
for my post validation. Or am my miss reading the code. -- Charlie Lenahan Software Engineer | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | P. 813 288 7388 x121  | F. 813 288 7389 Fortress Technologies   |  4023 Tampa Road, Suite 2000  | Oldsmar, FL  34677 IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTEC

Is it proper for OCSP calls to be in SSL_CTX_set_verify callback?

2006-06-19 Thread Charlie Lenahan
I am looking at adding OCSP to a TLS handshake, and trying to figure out the intended use of the callback function in SSL_CTX_set_verify(). >From what I gather for each certificate in a chain it will call the verify_callback func() . In that function that I provide, I can make my OCSP or SCVP call

Does OpenSSL's path validation logic support Bridge PKIs?

2006-06-06 Thread Charlie Lenahan
Does OpenSSL's path validation logic support Bridge PKIs? __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing Listopenssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager

Re: delayed setting of IV w/ EVP interface

2001-12-12 Thread Charlie Lenahan
>>The man pages says for EncryptInit "It is possible to set all parameters >>to NULL except type in an initial call and supply the remaining parameters >>in subsequent calls, all of which have type set to NULL. This is done >>when the default cipher parameters are not appropriate." >> >>Does