Re: Newbie questions

1999-10-29 Thread Michael Slass
SSH is nice, but I would also like to build SSL-telnet, and ran into the same problem. Is anyone maintaining SSL telnet? Has anyone gotten an SSL-enabled telnet to build against a recent version of OpenSSL? -Mike Slass WRQ, Inc. "Dr. Greg Quinn" wrote: > > What about SSH instead? > > On Fri

Public key encryption by hand

1999-10-14 Thread Michael Slass
Hello: I asked this question last week, but haven't seen a reply come by, so I'll ask again: Using the openssl command-line tool, is it possible to encrypt a message with an RSA public key? The scenario I'm imagining is ultra lightweight PGP by hand: 1) My friend and I each generate RSA keypai

public key encryption by hand

1999-10-08 Thread Michael Slass
Hi: If I have my friend's RSA public key, maybe contained in an x.509 certificate, maybe just an edited version of the output he got doing: openssl -in privkey.pem -text > my_whole_key.txt How do I encrypt a message (presumably containing little more than a session key for a symmetric algorithm)

Re: I hunger for knowledge

1999-10-04 Thread Michael Slass
Try http://www.w3j.com/7/s3.hirsch.wrap.html -Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Can someone point this newbie to a more complete reference > document on openssl (the command line utility)? I've looked > at http://www.openssl.org/docs/openssl.html, but still I am > mired in ignorance. > ___

Re: variable problem: OpenSSL 0.9.4 09 Aug 1999

1999-09-17 Thread Michael Slass
Didn't finish my thought: Is it possible that you've accidentally included a trailing slash in the path when configuring, like: $ ./config --prefix=/var/ssl/ --openssldir=/var/ssl/openssl/ Try without the trailing slash, and then recompile. Good luck. -Mike "Matthew R. Ocasek" wrote: > I

Re: variable problem: OpenSSL 0.9.4 09 Aug 1999

1999-09-17 Thread Michael Slass
Hey, 1) It looks like you have an extra slash in your path between ssl and etc. 2) A really sleazy fix would be to put a sym link in the directory where it's looking that points to your actual openssl.cnf -Mike "Matthew R. Ocasek" wrote: > I know this is a dumb question, but when trying to cr

Re: More: Anybody can help?

1999-08-19 Thread Michael Slass
I have a guess: >From openssl.cnf: [ ca ] default_ca = foo # The default ca section [foo] dir = # Where ev

Re: Creating Certificates and CA roots.

1999-08-12 Thread Michael Slass
Joe: I don't know if Matt is also planning a website, but I haven't even started mine, so I can't give you a link to it. -Mike Joe Novielli wrote: > > BTW MATT : Your web link would be much appreciated to clear the concepts > for neophytes. > > At 04:03 PM 08/11/99 -0700, you wrote: > >Hi:

Is this a bug

1999-08-09 Thread Michael Slass
Hello: I've been messing with openssl ca, and I think I may have found a (very minor)bug. $ openssl version OpenSSL 0.9.3a 29 May 1999 Given this CA cert: $ openssl x509 -text -in cacert.pem Certificate: Data: Version: 3 (0x2) Serial Number: 0 (0x0) Signature Algor

Help : PKCS10 cert request generation

1999-07-17 Thread Michael Slass
Not on the following: This is a TEST key; I'm never going to use it for anything. Please don't flame me to tell me 1) That I must always store my private key encrypted 2) That I should never publish my private key in a newsgroup mailing That said, here's my question: I'm using OpenSSL 0.9.3a on

Re: Storing information on the server -- NEWBIE ?

1999-07-12 Thread Michael Slass
Given an RSA private key, how does one direct OpenSSL to generate the corresponding public key to a file, presumably called publickey.pem? Thanks. Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > One thing, how do you generate a public / private keypair using openssl? I > > couldn't figure it out. I could