make test failed on Solaris 2.6

2000-07-17 Thread Cico, Michael
Hi, I was building 0.9.5a on Solaris 2.6; the initial "make test" failed, but I did a "make clean" & redid the build/test, and it was OK. I did it again to verify that it was OK. What might cause it to fail, then succeed on subsequent builds? Would the lack of a $RANDFILE or $HOME/.rnd random

base64 encoding & digital sig's

2000-07-12 Thread Cico, Michael
Hi, I'm in the process of developing a dig. sig. implementation for a project. The signature data needs to be appended to a URL query string in the form of a name/value pair, and then unbundled on the other side and verified. The signing side is Java and the verify side is C++ using OpenSSL. S

RE: DSA key sizes

2000-07-10 Thread Cico, Michael
-Original Message- >You can certainly use |p| < 1024 but it's correspondingly weaker. >I would say that 768 is the lower limit for even fairly casual >use. Sounds like it's OK to use for now, but I'll probably switch to RSA when the patent expires in september. RSA key sizes aren't lim

access of passphrases

2000-06-30 Thread Cico, Michael
Hi folks, I'm a rookie on OpenSSL and security stuff in general, and I think I can now officially classify myself as knowing just enough to be dangerous. Here's my situation. We're trying to do one-way authentication between a Servlet on one machine and a C++ CGI on the other. I have chosen