Re: DH parameter reading in OPENSSL 3

2022-07-14 Thread Mark H. Wood
plementary, and a developer shifts between these modes of thought often while working. I agree that a Migration Guide will, after a brief discussion of the high-level differences between old and new, consist mostly of "if you did task T that way before, now you should do it something like t

Re: How to query current settings/policies?

2021-06-22 Thread Mark H. Wood
est: > https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/14570 > > Unfortunately it was not implemented in time for beta1 so this is now > Post 3.0 item. > > I would recommend explicitly setting security level 0 via a cipher > string when executing the test. I second the motion

Re: [openssl-users] Appropriate use of SSL_CTX_set_cipher_list()

2018-07-19 Thread Mark H. Wood
nds on another question: do you regularly review the package manager's default cipher list, and have reason to trust it? -- Mark H. Wood Lead Technology Analyst University Library Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis 755 W. Michigan Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 317-274-0749

Re: [openssl-users] More on cert serialnumbers

2017-08-18 Thread Mark H. Wood
; And unless some or all of the browsers also apply these requirements to > private CAs, you’re not forced to follow them all. How does one mechanically distinguish public vs. private CAs? -- Mark H. Wood Lead Technology Analyst University Library Indiana University - Purdue University Ind

Re: [openssl-users] OpenSSL version 1.0.2l published

2017-06-02 Thread Mark H. Wood
a file named CHANGES contains *all* of the changes, while a file named RELEASE_NOTES includes selected changes of particular significance. It's confusing to call a release-notes file CHANGES. Appending a note that, for a full change log, [DO THIS], would probably be well received. -- Mark

Re: [openssl-users] [openssl-dev] Removing obsolete crypto from OpenSSL 1.1 - seeking feedback

2015-11-17 Thread Mark H. Wood
Mark H. Wood Lead Technology Analyst University Library Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis 755 W. Michigan Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 317-274-0749 www.ulib.iupui.edu signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ openssl-users ma

Re: Linux Foundation Core Infrastructure Initiative fellowships

2014-05-29 Thread Mark H. Wood
\applause all around! -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Machines should not be friendly. Machines should be obedient. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: SSL Root CA and Intermediate CA Certs.

2014-04-24 Thread Mark H. Wood
tention to the CAs you trust, and evict any that seem to have declined to a degree that worries you. 5. Goto 3. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Machines should not be friendly. Machines should be obedient. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: ssh-add refuses to use the key on my USB thumb drive

2013-12-12 Thread Mark H. Wood
Or 'mount -o umask=077' I think. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Machines should not be friendly. Machines should be obedient. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: I can't believe how much this sucks

2012-11-13 Thread Mark H. Wood
lingness to work with the writer to ensure that the coverage and clarity of the writing is substantially improved. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Asking whether markets are efficient is like asking whether people are smart. pgpNJNzqoTBIj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Best practice for client cert name checking

2012-10-08 Thread Mark H. Wood
the hostname > you connected to. If the next time you connect the certificate has > changed, a system supporting certificate pinning will warn you. I believe this is what the Certificate Patrol plugin for Firefox is doing, if you want to see it in action. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programm

Re: Certificate and Certificate request (Using API)

2012-07-30 Thread Mark H. Wood
rivate CA > support and we should have a friendly script or cookbook for this available > somewhere. Fixing this will relieve you guys of answering all these > inquiries via email. TinyCA has, so far, sufficed for my modest needs. http://tinyca.sm-zone.net/ -- Mark H. Wood, Lead Syst

Re: My bank has an invalid cert

2011-08-26 Thread Mark H. Wood
iles in /etc. There's no way to keep me out. Better to say: if users canNOT manipulate the root certificate store, then it would be impossible to trust anything. The whole point is *my* trust. (And yours.) -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Asking whether markets ar

Re: My bank has an invalid cert

2011-08-26 Thread Mark H. Wood
It > > should be self explanatory from here. The only other question that > > remains is which Root CA. That can only be done by reading the > > certificate hierarchy that is presented by the bank's server, which it > > should provide you upon making an s_client co

Re: [openssl-users] Re: How to disable index and serial?

2011-01-13 Thread Mark H. Wood
Ah. I did not understand that "referenced by browser vendors" meant we were talking about inclusion in their canned trust stores. Thanks, both of you. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Asking whether markets are efficient is like asking whether people

Re: How to disable index and serial?

2011-01-12 Thread Mark H. Wood
haps you could develop and share a patch that provides locking? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Asking whether markets are efficient is like asking whether people are smart. pgp0W7wcocR7D.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [openssl-users] Re: How to disable index and serial?

2011-01-12 Thread Mark H. Wood
w do they test the randomness of a single sample? "1" is every bit as random (or nonrandom) as "0xdcb4a459f014617692d112f0942c89cb". -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Asking whether markets are efficient is like asking whether people are smart.

Re: Error signing certificates with my own CA... Configuration file?

2010-09-28 Thread Mark H. Wood
e not to use such a tool, you may learn some useful things by studying the code. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Balance your desire for bells and whistles with the reality that only a little more than 2 percent of world population has broadband. -- Ledford and

Re: How to make a legit CA cert?

2010-06-01 Thread Mark H. Wood
no matter how many disclaimers they slather onto the EULA. We should all check and tune our browsers' trust lists. (No, I haven't.) -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Balance your desire for bells and whistles with the reality that only a little more tha

Re: convert xml cert to cer or pfx format

2010-05-05 Thread Mark H. Wood
certificate, that might help. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Balance your desire for bells and whistles with the reality that only a little more than 2 percent of world population has broadband. -- Ledford and Tyler, _Google Analytics 2.0_ pgpWMvJc1KSb0.pgp

Re: CPU usage and FPGA support

2010-03-11 Thread Mark H. Wood
don't have to make practical sense, so long as they make educational sense. Anyway, when did anyone pass a law that says requirements have to be sensible? :-) -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Friends don't let friends publish revisable-form

Re: General question about documentation

2009-12-02 Thread Mark H. Wood
ough information from the source to write properly. The designer knows things the rest of us do not, and it is precisely that knowledge which gives documentation much of its value. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Friends don't let friends publish revisable-form documents. pgpwKJpF5MXBS.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: General question about documentation

2009-12-02 Thread Mark H. Wood
orrect if it does not model the problem that the code is intended to solve. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Friends don't let friends publish revisable-form documents. pgpKR3QEobidk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Geode on-chip AES 128-bit crypto accelerations but OpenSSL doesn't use it

2009-09-29 Thread Mark H. Wood
seen any patches come in). > (i.e.: Intel is doing strategic positioning that AMD is not.) That's smart of Intel. But again, if AMD have released spec.s under liberal terms then maybe they think they *are* positioning their product, and nobody has picked up on it yet. -- Mark H. W

Re: OpenSSL 1.0.0 beta 1 released

2009-04-03 Thread Mark H. Wood
That's a Layer 1/2 issue. Perhaps you mean RFC 3514? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Friends don't let friends publish revisable-form documents. pgpD1Wm4j9Cwx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Need help with keytool

2009-02-25 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 03:17:52PM -0800, John Oliver wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 03:48:21PM -0500, Mark H. Wood wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 08:02:30AM -0800, John Oliver wrote: > > > > > 10. Right click on the displayed keypair and Rename it to 'key&#

Re: Need help with keytool

2009-02-25 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 03:11:29PM -0800, John Oliver wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 03:48:21PM -0500, Mark H. Wood wrote: > > I don't think Sun keytool will do thist step. You can export > > certificates but not private keys -- at least, I've never found a way >

Re: Need help with keytool

2009-02-24 Thread Mark H. Wood
-provided keys, but keytool doesn't let you at that method. If you could use -genseckey to let keytool generate the key, you could start with a .jks and there'd be no problem. > I am told that renaming the keypair is important, as our application > cares. Same with using the pass

Re: Year 2038 problem

2008-10-06 Thread Mark H. Wood
e error allowance, 50 mile 100% kill zone, plus room to hide.) > > A more likely possibility - > All of the crypto-locks on the physical facilities will not work, > nor any of the access cards - nobody will be able to get in. > Meaning the world will be effectively, totally disarmed.

Re: extended validation certificates

2008-08-25 Thread Mark H. Wood
self-signed cert.s would pass the audit, but your CA doesn't have to work that way. The question then is whether the ability to issue EV cert.s yourself is worth the effort and expense of doing it properly. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a softw

Re: Code goes into a loop

2008-06-13 Thread Mark H. Wood
e ((nread = BIO_gets(in, buf, sizeof(buf))) && err > 0) { err = BIO_write(out, buf, nread); } } A network echo service would use sockets instead of stdin, stdout (unless it's meant to be run by something like inetd). -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite. pgpqBeVFub079.pgp Description: PGP signature

Generating a renewal CSR from existing CSR?

2008-03-25 Thread Mark H. Wood
ad and make one for next year. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite. pgpwLwFBU4rOO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Changing the expiry date of a cert

2007-10-19 Thread Mark H. Wood
o *that* question had better be "NO". It truly doesn't matter whether you made a new certificate or updated the old one, because in either case you must distribute it again in a trustworthy manner or nobody will trust it. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ty

Re: LDAP instead of /etc/ssl/certs ?

2007-07-20 Thread Mark H. Wood
ible for an attacker to spoof both the CA and the > end entity certificates, and that would be a VERY BAD THING :) Well, that's what DNSSEC is for. Not to mention mutual authentication between the directory and client. I don't see why this CANNOT be secured. I agree that it tak

Re: renewing certificate

2007-04-17 Thread Mark H. Wood
I went to www.microsoft.com and searched for "IIS install certificate". The first hit led me to: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms751408.aspx with step-by-step instructions. (Ignore the leading part about 'makecert', of course -- you already have a certificate

Verifying that a private key and certificate match

2007-02-19 Thread Mark H. Wood
Is there a built-in command in the openssl utility which can verify that a private key and a certificate represent a valid keypair? Or is there some simple way to determine this using other built-in commands? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software

Re: HTTPS security model

2006-12-05 Thread Mark H. Wood
ock which indicates "you have explicitly told me to trust this object". -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite. pgpz4zisIJ0da.pgp Description: PGP signature

0.9.8d configure overrides -march=; any workaround?

2006-09-28 Thread Mark H. Wood
bably better to just punt this decision to the builder. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite. pgp1Xi1tjl9jC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: how do i escape spaces in -subj (DN) arg to req?

2006-08-18 Thread Mark H. Wood
ot a script or an alias, then we (or at least I) don't know what it is and cannot advise without more information about it. I just tried the command: openssl req -subj "/C=US/ST=NY/L=New York" -new > ny.req on OpenSSL 0.9.8 under the shell Bash 3.00.0(1)-release and it works j

Re: CSR Without Prompting

2006-06-10 Thread Mark H. Wood
making appropriate substitutions from the form data? Or if your form processor isn't a convenient place to do this, you could fork a command that pipes the template through e.g. sed. - -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a

Re: [openssl-users] Re: openssl req -x509 does not create serial-number 0

2006-02-28 Thread Mark H. Wood
ted. So we see a field described as a serial number and ask why it isn't behaving properly. It's too bad the standard calls this attribute a "serial number" rather than, say, "certificate unique identifier", but the term is fixed now. - -- Mark H. Wood, Lead Syst

Re: Does a root CA need two certificates?

2005-01-19 Thread Mark H. Wood
ect bullets with his unprotected flesh, a native of Krypton, etc. It's necessary to think about what "his name is Superman" means, and whether that meaning is of any use in determining the kind of identity you want to prove. The same is true of X.509 or OpenPGP certificates, or reall

Re: Securing a CA

2004-04-22 Thread Mark H. Wood
the exchange, see that OurRoot is itself a subordinate cert., and continue chaining back to IdenTrust; o check *both*, note a discrepancy, yell "bloody murder!" and ask the user for a decision. If I've misunderstood the problem, what would you recommend I read? - -- Mar

RE: introduction

2003-03-14 Thread Mark H. Wood
web stuff, and probably many more yet to be discovered. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] MS Windows *is* user-friendly, but only for certain values of "user". __ OpenSSL Project

Re: Queries on SubjAltName

2003-01-28 Thread Mark H. Wood
xtensions.txt" and "PKCS12-library.txt" or something like that? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] MS Windows *is* user-friendly, but only for certain values of "user". __ OpenSSL P

Re: free Certificate Authority

2002-11-04 Thread Mark H. Wood
m the person whom you met in Chicago on date D" or "I am the person X named in Y's will". -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] MS Windows *is* user-friendly, but only for certain values of "user". _

Re: Upgrading openssl

2002-08-13 Thread Mark H. Wood
S vendor's documentation. Anything which is statically linked with code from the library archives will need to be rebuilt before it can use the updated libraries. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] MS Windows *is* user-friend

Re: Errors

2002-06-04 Thread Mark H. Wood
et has one other thing going for it: it's all wrapped up in a pretty package so that you can just push a few buttons and have a private CA ready for use. OTOH OpenSSL lets you see what it is doing, and it's flexible enough to do a lot more than just issue magic numbers. -- Mark H.

Re: [openssl-users] I'm confused on the big picture. Help?-------=========--------}}}}}}}}

2002-05-16 Thread Mark H. Wood
that I ought to come away with a deeper understanding of what I'm doing, if I work out the abstract requirements and then translate to OpenSSL specifics. I do think I'll have a look at _Network Security with OpenSSL_ when it comes out, though. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Program

RE: Which product to buy?

2002-05-14 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Tue, 14 May 2002, Franck Martin wrote: [snip] > Who can't see that this message is digitaly signed and do you know why? I can see that it is signed, but pine doesn't know what to do with an "Application/X-PKCS7-SIGNATURE" bodypart. -- Mark H. Wood,

Re: Is OpenSSL Production Ready?

2002-04-08 Thread Mark H. Wood
ou! I hadn't thought of that, and it sounds like fun too. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] MS Windows *is* user-friendly, but only for certain values of "user". ___

Re: Is OpenSSL Production Ready?

2002-04-05 Thread Mark H. Wood
27;s going to be to get *both* compatibly installed on one box.) IIRC the Ethereal folk have also run up against this problem. I'm not asking for anything at this time; I just wanted to provide a couple of data points. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] MS Window

Re: Is OpenSSL Production Ready?

2002-04-05 Thread Mark H. Wood
quot;. I hear that Intel is suing some nonprofit for daring to call themselves "Yoga Inside", on the (ludicrous IMHO) grounds that that name harms their trademark. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] MS Windows *is* us

RE: Duplicate Posts

2002-03-20 Thread Mark H. Wood
ail 3.2.0.112 on my own system, passes through procmail 3.14 to be sorted into various mailboxes, and is read using pine 4.33. Here some posts are multiplied up to five times, and some are not. That suggests a gateway which is common to some, but not all, posters. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Progra

Re: PKI book in relation to VPNs

2001-12-06 Thread Mark H. Wood
terial out there for people who want to buy something off the shelf, slam it in, do five minutes of cookbook setup, and forget it ever happened. It's much harder to find books which promote actual *understanding*. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Our lives are f

Re: ASN.1 encoding of negative integers

2001-10-17 Thread Mark H. Wood
n the dump tool, to me. An eight-bit signed value of -2 would be 254 if interpreted as unsigned. I can recommend Olivier Dubuisson's book on ASN.1, but my copy is at home now so I can't refer to it. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMA

Re: Wasn't someone joking about the virus being posted by an autoresponder

2001-08-23 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Caliban Tiresias Darklock wrote: > Just out of curiosity, why are attachments allowed on the list in the > first place? Is there any legitimate reason for it? Well, why not? Is there any legitimate reason *not* to? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer

Re: OpenSSL on itanium [going offtopic]

2001-08-22 Thread Mark H. Wood
ng VT5xx last I heard. Anybody know whatever happened to the "Dragon" graphics chip? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make a good day. __ OpenSSL Project http

Re: Please reconfigure majordomo to not set Reply-To (was: Failedto clean virus file Emanuel.exe)

2001-08-21 Thread Mark H. Wood
roken. However it is perfectly reasonable for a list reflector to *add* this header, and I appreciate the service. Besides, I'm getting a nice list of virus-scanner companies that don't know how to write proper autoresponders. :-/ -- Mark H. Wood, Le

Re: Smart Card Readers

2001-04-23 Thread Mark H. Wood
If you don't insist on the token being a *card*, the iButton looks interesting. I've not used it -- has anyone? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make a good day. __ OpenS

Re: was Re: Apologies, now is 'no-idea'

2001-02-22 Thread Mark H. Wood
the use of their algorithm. But if you want to be *sure*, ask a lawyer. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make a good day. __ OpenSSL Project http://w

Re: Exportable cipher suite

2001-02-19 Thread Mark H. Wood
nada any given technology for secure communication. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make a good day. __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List

RE: Apps over SSL

2000-09-18 Thread Mark H. Wood
g ssh properly. Further discussion of ssh ought to move to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or comp.security.ssh . -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2000-05-05 13:27:15 GMT -- still no icebergs in the White River

Compiling against OpenSSL built with no-idea?

2000-05-28 Thread Mark H. Wood
.h be informed that IDEA is to be ignored? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2000-05-05 13:27:15 GMT -- still no icebergs in the White River __ OpenSSL Project

Re: Verisign/NSI/Thawte monopoly

2000-03-31 Thread Mark H. Wood
gt; much. Now I am surprised. The key only means that you have a reasonably secure channel to an unknown endpoint. Do lots of people really believe that it means any more than that? That is frightening. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Where's the kaboom?

Re: Verisign/NSI/Thawte monopoly

2000-03-31 Thread Mark H. Wood
hat it issues? What basis would we have for trusting A's certification that a certificate asserting that it belogs to B was in fact issued to B, other than to trust that A has diligently investigated the requestor's claims and met our standards for establishing that that person is in fact B? -- Mar

Re: Commercial SSL in the US

2000-03-10 Thread Mark H. Wood
te this year when it expires, so in the U.S. you have to use their code and obey their license until then. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Definitely NOT a lawyer. __ OpenSSL Project

Re: OpenSSL and Mac OS and export fun

1999-11-22 Thread Mark H. Wood
what I was doing, and in all cases they said OK. Can you get it in writing? It is difficult to get telephone conversations into court. Each party contrives to remember them differently. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please, no more software products offering a &quo

Re: OpenSSL and Kerberos, again

1999-01-16 Thread Mark H. Wood
body. I'll look through the stuff that 1.1 is known to break and see if I can safely upgrade. (Then I'll have to tweak ssh....) -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please, no more software products offering a "richer experience"! I have indigestion o