associating a cert with a private key

2010-03-27 Thread sd dd
haven't had any luck with this alias so far, thought I've try it one more time :) here is my understanding of a cert signing request, client create a key pair, send the public key to server for signing server send back the signed cert, now, my question is, from the server respon

how is dup/ref-counting handled in openssl?

2010-03-26 Thread sd dd
so in window crypto api, there is this concept of duplicate and ref counting, for example, CertDuplicateStore call basically increments the store ref count. i am wondering if openssl handles this? how do i understand the concept openssl uses? ( right now my understanding is there is no such

porting win32 crypto code to openssl

2010-03-24 Thread sd dd
hello all, I have some code that was initially written under windows, using win32 crypto dll, recently i need to port this code to use openssl instead. would like to know what are some suggested options. a couple of approaches I can see 1. rewrite the code using openssl. 2. try to wrap som