Re: crlDistributionPoints in issuer vs user certificates

2010-01-28 Thread Patrick Patterson
Hello Björn; On January 28, 2010 05:40:57 am Björn Lantz wrote: > Dear listreaders, > > I have a question about whos/which CRL the crlDistributionPoints in a > certificate should point out. I have spent a few days looking for a > recommendation or common practice, but without success. > Check out

Re: crlDistributionPoints in a certificate request

2007-02-07 Thread domi
Hello everbody, in the end I was able to solve my problem and here is what I’ve done. If you want to follow my example just be careful and read the warnings in the other comments concerning this topic. As Patrick suggested I was in need of the "copy extensions" but at that time I just didn’t know

Re: crlDistributionPoints in a certificate request

2007-02-03 Thread Goetz Babin-Ebell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi domi, domi wrote: > After one day pending-status I'll post this message again. ?? At least your message never reached me... > domi wrote: >> Just some last explanations: Of course my scenario is just fictional and I >> won’t try to set up a comm

Re: crlDistributionPoints in a certificate request

2007-02-03 Thread domi
After one day pending-status I'll post this message again. domi wrote: > > I won’t quote our complete conversation because it has grown to a rather > huge amount of text. I just will say: Yes, Goetz you are right ;) > So I come to the conclusion that I can’t to those things in OpenSSL which > I

Re: crlDistributionPoints in a certificate request

2007-02-01 Thread Goetz Babin-Ebell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 domi wrote: > Goetz wrote: > > I think your security model is broken. > A CRL and with that the server clients can download it from is part of > the chain of security of the CA. > So theses servers must be on (best case) dedicated servers that are > s

Re: crlDistributionPoints in a certificate request

2007-02-01 Thread domi
Goetz wrote: I think your security model is broken. A CRL and with that the server clients can download it from is part of the chain of security of the CA. So theses servers must be on (best case) dedicated servers that are specially hardened for this usage. These servers are a (potentially outs

Re: crlDistributionPoints in a certificate request

2007-02-01 Thread Goetz Babin-Ebell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Domi, domi wrote: > which is helpful but not exactly what I had in mind ;) You couldn’t know > this because I forgot to mention my aims. I’m trying to realise the > following scenario: > The CRL shall be kept on the server of the SSL-website and

Re: crlDistributionPoints in a certificate request

2007-01-31 Thread domi
Thank you for your quick answer, which is helpful but not exactly what I had in mind ;) You couldn’t know this because I forgot to mention my aims. I’m trying to realise the following scenario: The CRL shall be kept on the server of the SSL-website and not within the servers of the CA in order to

Re: crlDistributionPoints in a certificate request

2007-01-31 Thread Patrick Patterson
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 06:45, domi wrote: > Hello, > > I searched and tried a lot but wasn't able to solve the following problem: > > I have built my own little CA (with the help of the OpenSSL book of > O'Reilly). I can create certificate requests and issue certificate from > them. Now I wan

Re: CRLDistributionPoints

2006-10-31 Thread Karsten Ohme
Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: > On Sun, Oct 29, 2006, Karsten Ohme wrote: > > >>Hello, >> >>The example from: >> >>http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/x509v3_config.html >> > > > Those docs are for 0.9.9-dev check the docs with your distribution. OK, works better. Almost. But I want to add an base D

Re: CRLDistributionPoints

2006-10-29 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006, Karsten Ohme wrote: > Hello, > > The example from: > > http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/x509v3_config.html > Those docs are for 0.9.9-dev check the docs with your distribution. Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. Email, S/MIME and PGP keys: see homepage OpenSSL project core

Re: crlDistributionPoints with DirName value?

2003-11-09 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003, Mike Acar wrote: > > I'll answer several messages at once in this mail. > > Nils Larsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Try: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > [dist_point] > > dirName=dir_name > > > > [dir_name] > > C=FI > > O=SSH Communications Security Corp > > CN=SS

Re: crlDistributionPoints with DirName value?

2003-11-06 Thread Mike Acar
I'll answer several messages at once in this mail. Nils Larsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [dist_point] > dirName=dir_name > > [dir_name] > C=FI > O=SSH Communications Security Corp > CN=SSH Test CA 2 No Liabilities > > this works for me (note: I'm using 0.9.8

Re: crlDistributionPoints with DirName value?

2003-11-04 Thread Kiyoshi Watanabe
Hi, > crlDistributionPoints = DirName:/C=FI/O=SSH Communications Security Corp/CN=SSH Test > CA 2 No Liabilities How about crlDistributionPoints = @crl_dist [ crl_dist ] DirName = /C=FI/O=SSH Communications Security Corp/CN=SSH Test CA 2 No Liabilities -Kiyoshi Kiyoshi Watanabe > and

Re: crlDistributionPoints....how to get values?

2002-02-13 Thread Dr S N Henson
"Hellan,Kim KHE" wrote: > > Hi > > I have a certificate with a crlDistributionPoint extension. Using OpenSSL > terms, the extension consists of two DIST_POINT*.one of the type > GEN_DIRNAME and the other of the type GEN_URI. > In my code I have "parsed" these DIST_POINT* and what I end up wi

Re: CRLDistributionPoints

1999-07-05 Thread Sergio Rabellino
ssl wrote: > > Don't know whether it helps : > comment out the line : > crl_extensions = crl_ext > and the [crl_ext] section. > all ok, I forgot to upgrade my openssl tree Thanks... -- Dott. Sergio Rabellino Technical Staff Department of Computer Science University of Torino (Ital

Re: CRLDistributionPoints

1999-07-02 Thread ssl
Don't know whether it helps : comment out the line : crl_extensions = crl_ext and the [crl_ext] section. On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Sergio Rabellino wrote: > ssl wrote: > > > > Sure it can, like my openssl.cnf : > > > > crlDistributionPoints=URI:http://sgiinda.csc.cuhk.edu.hk/1.crl > > > > need not

Re: CRLDistributionPoints

1999-07-02 Thread Sergio Rabellino
ssl wrote: > > Sure it can, like my openssl.cnf : > > crlDistributionPoints=URI:http://sgiinda.csc.cuhk.edu.hk/1.crl > > need not be https because the crl is signed by CA. > And pretty good checked by IE and outlook express, if you > click the check box "Check for server certificate revocation"