certificate fingerprint within decrypt

2000-06-19 Thread Jacob Cohen
Is it possible to extract the 16-byte certificate fingerprint given only the RSA struct being used in a private key decrypt? All the certificate functions I can see seem to use the SSL struct, which I don't have access to from within RSA_private_decrypt(). Thanks. J. __

SSL handshaking on remote machine

2000-06-01 Thread Jacob Cohen
I'm trying to get SSL handshaking to work on a remote, accelerated machine to take some load off of the web servers when they have a lot of incoming connections. Since the accelerator card in the remote machine supports OpenSSL, I figured I would use the OpenSSL routines on that machine to do t

SSL session length

2000-04-24 Thread Jacob Cohen
Is it generally a bad idea to allow users to use the same SSL session for say, an hour? (using 128 bit encryption) I am trying to play with session caches distributed amongst multiple web servers to allow a user to reuse the same session for up to an hour (by sharing session info among the web