[OT] Re: modifying Certificate purposes

2005-02-23 Thread Patrick Ben Koetter
* Christian Kreibich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Could you recommend a good book on openssl? > > The O'Reilly book by Viega, Messier and Chandra is useful -- they show > you one way to OpenSSL-enable an existing application, plus other parts > of the API. It also shows you how to do nonblocking I/O w

Re: modifying Certificate purposes

2005-02-23 Thread Christian Kreibich
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 13:44 +0100, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: > * Dr. Stephen Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Yes that's basically it. While it is also possible to restrict CA purposes > > not all software supports and it is non standard. > > Could you recommend a good book on openssl? The O'Reil

Re: modifying Certificate purposes

2005-02-23 Thread Patrick Ben Koetter
* Dr. Stephen Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yes that's basically it. While it is also possible to restrict CA purposes > not all software supports and it is non standard. Could you recommend a good book on openssl? I really want to learn more about it, but I find it hard to find some good docs. T

Re: modifying Certificate purposes

2005-02-23 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005, ray v wrote: > Ok I figured it out, doh! > > Here's part of my openssl command > > openssl x509 -req -days $days -in $csrfile -extfile > extfile -extensions extend > > I use -extfile and -extensions > > Here's my extfile > > extensions = extend > [ extend ] > keyUsage

Re: modifying Certificate purposes

2005-02-22 Thread Michael Weiner
ray v wrote: Ok I figured it out, doh! Here's part of my openssl command openssl x509 -req -days $days -in $csrfile -extfile extfile -extensions extend I use -extfile and -extensions Here's my extfile extensions = extend [ extend ] keyUsage = digitalSignature extendedKeyUsage = clientAuth nsCer

Re: modifying Certificate purposes

2005-02-22 Thread Michael Weiner
ray v wrote: Let me see if I understand what your saying? I need to generate another CA certificate the has only ssl client set yes? This does not make sense especially if you read the extension section in the openssl.cnf file [ usr_cert ] which specifies that upon signing you can change the purpos

Re: modifying Certificate purposes

2005-02-22 Thread ray v
Ok I figured it out, doh! Here's part of my openssl command openssl x509 -req -days $days -in $csrfile -extfile extfile -extensions extend I use -extfile and -extensions Here's my extfile extensions = extend [ extend ] keyUsage = digitalSignature extendedKeyUsage = clientAuth nsCertType = cl

Re: modifying Certificate purposes

2005-02-22 Thread ray v
Let me see if I understand what your saying? I need to generate another CA certificate the has only ssl client set yes? This does not make sense especially if you read the extension section in the openssl.cnf file [ usr_cert ] which specifies that upon signing you can change the purpose of the ce

Re: modifying Certificate purposes

2005-02-22 Thread Michael Weiner
ray v wrote: Hi Michael, Thanks for responding. My problem is a little more involved then that. I'm the CA, err using openssl can creating a CA certificate using the v3_ca extension. I have quite a number of certificate being used by our servers. Recently we wanted to start generating user certific

Re: modifying Certificate purposes

2005-02-22 Thread Michael Weiner
ray v wrote: Hi Michael, Thanks for responding. My problem is a little more involved then that. I'm the CA, err using openssl can creating a CA certificate using the v3_ca extension. I have quite a number of certificate being used by our servers. Recently we wanted to start generating user certific

Re: modifying Certificate purposes

2005-02-22 Thread ray v
Hi Michael, Thanks for responding. My problem is a little more involved then that. I'm the CA, err using openssl can creating a CA certificate using the v3_ca extension. I have quite a number of certificate being used by our servers. Recently we wanted to start generating user certificates but we

Re: modifying Certificate purposes

2005-02-22 Thread Michael Weiner
ray v wrote: Hello all! I'm looking for ways to turn off and on features in the "Certificate purposes" are of a certificate. I've read over extfile and extension plus looked at basicContraints. I'm unclear by the documentation written for openssl, x509, ca, etc., just how to do this. Can someone