Re: Several issues concerning ASN1 in OpenSSL

2000-08-23 Thread Peter Sylvester
I'm thinking more in terms of a CTX parameter passed to a different API. The problem with many caching ideas and the current ASN1 library is that things could be modified and the cache have no way of determining that it is now invalid. Some parts are modified using a structured API

Re: Nonblocking again. Don't want OpenSSL to do any networking.

2000-08-23 Thread Douglas Wikström
This makes me wonder whether a) perhaps a native C++ interface is in order (with the inherent advantages and disadvantages); and b) should My vote is to keep things in C. object-oriented terminology be used in the documentation, as a pedagogical tool? In other words (for the latter),

Re: Nonblocking again. Don't want OpenSSL to do any networking.

2000-08-23 Thread Holger Reif
Gary Feldman schrieb: specified in C. You can implement your own particular BIO (analogous to deriving an implementation class from an abstract class), by providing the following functions (i.e. methods). Since this is C and not C++, you have to make the methods available as follows,

Solaris8-X86 and cc 6.0 patch

2000-08-23 Thread Pietro Princi
Here enclosed a drop-in tar replacing Makefiles and making Sun's new cc compiler happy. Fully tested and working, even in shared library version. Enjoy. -- ** Dr. Pietro Princi ** zone-c: PP787-RIPE ** Universita' di Messina - Viale Annunziata - 98100 MESSINA - ITALY ** tel: +39-90-6766459 fax:

Re: X509v3 extensions for root CA certs to support OCSP?

2000-08-23 Thread Dr S N Henson
Alicia da Conceicao wrote: My contacts at Netscape mentioned that a few CA'a like Versign have issued new root CA certs that support the new OCSP (Online Cert Status Protocol), specified in RFC 2560. He also mentioned that OCSP support will not only be included in future Netscape

Re: X509v3 extensions for root CA certs to support OCSP?

2000-08-23 Thread Alicia da Conceicao
You can do this via the authority information access extension. The format is undocumented but something like: authorityInfoAccess= OCSP;URI:http//some.oscp.server/whatever/path Dear Steve: Do you have the object identifers for this? Do you know of any sources of info I can look at about

RE: X509v3 extensions for root CA certs to support OCSP?

2000-08-23 Thread Ambarish Malpani
Hi Alicia, You don't need to add any special extensions to root certificates to say that the CA does OCSP. You basically need to add the AIA extension in the end entity (EE)/CA certs that you issue, to tell relying parties (RP) where to look for the OCSP server to find the status of the EE

Question on the use of gmtime in openssl

2000-08-23 Thread SSL Porter
Hi, I'm currently porting OpenSSL to a platform that lacks a gmtime eqivalent. I do however have access to a localtime. How would the OpenSSL library be affected if I switched the gmtime()'s to the localtime equivalent available to me? My hope is that the gmtime is only being used to