Re: why are some ssl_ciphers invalid

2006-02-10 Thread Wes Kussmaul
Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2006, Kyle Hamilton wrote: There's a HOWTO on how to create DH certificates with CA.pl; the X.509/PKCS functions support them, but the SSL/TLS layer doesn't? I assume DH = Diffie-Hellman? -- Wes Kussmaul CIO The Village Group 738 Main Street Wal

Re: why are some ssl_ciphers invalid

2006-02-10 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006, Kyle Hamilton wrote: > There's a HOWTO on how to create DH certificates with CA.pl; the > X.509/PKCS functions support them, but the SSL/TLS layer doesn't? > The openssl utility can be used to create DH *parameters* but there is no support in the X509 library for DH *certif

Re: why are some ssl_ciphers invalid

2006-02-10 Thread Kyle Hamilton
There's a HOWTO on how to create DH certificates with CA.pl; the X.509/PKCS functions support them, but the SSL/TLS layer doesn't? -Kyle H On 2/10/06, Dr. Stephen Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006, jimmy wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Why is it that some ciphers like "DH-DSS-AES1

Re: why are some ssl_ciphers invalid

2006-02-10 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006, jimmy wrote: > Hi, > > Why is it that some ciphers like "DH-DSS-AES128-SHA", have > SSL_CIPHER.valid set to 0 in the table ssl3_cpihers? > > Is there a specific reason? > They require the use of DH certificates which OpenSSL doesn't support. Very few people use them and