How to verify OpenSSL lib version from autoconf?

2006-06-25 Thread Matt England
My project's code is apparently compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.7g (and possibly higher) but not 0.9.8 (because the header file changed from 0.9.7 and 0.9.8...which seems rather undesirable). In any case, I'd like our autoconf macros to be able to automatically check to see if 0.9.7g and higher is

SIGPIPE signal on MinGW for OpenSSL SSL_Write()?

2006-03-25 Thread Matt England
Summary: Does MinGW provide support for the SIGPIPE signal in order to catch OpenSSL SSL_Write() function failures? (I'm cross-posting this to openss-users and ming-users...I hope that's ok.) Details: In reference to this Thread:

Does OpenSSL support Windows 98?

2005-08-22 Thread Matt England
Hello, I realize this is a rather ambiguous question, but I thought I'd start somewhere: Does OpenSSL support Windows 98? If it's only partial support, what is missing? I am managing a software development project based on MinGW/Boost/Qt/OpenSSL, hoping to not have to support Win98, but I ju

Re: Can the same seed always generate same keys?

2005-06-07 Thread Matt England
hru a hash function or a key derivation function (KDF). A popular choice is PBKDF2 in PKCS#5. See: http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/pkcs/ " Thanks for any help...and your patience with this potential faq. -Matt At 6/7/2005 10:57 PM, Matt England wrote: Hello, I'm trying to build an app

Can the same seed always generate same keys?

2005-06-07 Thread Matt England
Hello, I'm trying to build an application/system that will always generate the same RSA public-private key pair given the same "seed" data into the OpenSLL-public-private-key-pair generation process? Essentially, I want to be able to regenerate a private key simply by using a user's login na