RE: Loading shared libraries under HP-UX on PA32

2000-11-07 Thread Howard Chu
It's been a long time since I've worked on HPUX, but I recall that the shl* routines support the SHLIB_PATH environment variable, completely analogous to LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I don't see why anyone should be having a problem here. Someone with access to a machine and manpages should of course correct

RE: problems with `configure`..

2000-11-07 Thread Howard Chu
This question probably belongs more in openssl-users, not openssl-dev. More likely, it belongs in [EMAIL PROTECTED] But since I'm on all of these lists anyway, I'll answer here: The Solaris compiler and linker don't know to look in /usr/local/ssl, so you have to tell them explicitly to do so

Re: problems with `configure`..

2000-11-07 Thread Corrado Derenale
"g. labe" wrote: hello. i hope you'd like to help me.. i'm trying to compile and install openldap v2.0.6 on my solaris 2.6 machine (sparc). openldap requires openssl - i compiled it (v0.9.6) without a problem and installed it with `make install` in standard location (`/usr/local/ssl`).

Re: Loading shared libraries under HP-UX on PA32

2000-11-07 Thread Lutz Jaenicke
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 01:30:16AM -0800, Howard Chu wrote: It's been a long time since I've worked on HPUX, but I recall that the shl* routines support the SHLIB_PATH environment variable, completely analogous to LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I don't see why anyone should be having a problem here.

Re: Loading shared libraries under HP-UX on PA32

2000-11-07 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
From: Lutz Jaenicke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lutz.Jaenicke So it seems to be recommendable to set the DYNAMIC_PATH Lutz.Jaenicke option in the shl_load() call. Then later, the Lutz.Jaenicke application can be linked with +b and/or +s option to Lutz.Jaenicke specify the place where to search for the

Re: OpenSSL 0.9.6 engine code and Cryptoswift, testing on Solaris and HP UX

2000-11-07 Thread Richard Levitte
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000, lgazis wrote: So, it appears that the failure of DL_load and DSO_load comes from looking only for libswift.sl in the same directory as the application, and not the libswift.sl which is in /usr/lib. Solved the problem (I hope). I had missed the option DYNAMIC_PATH and

Re: Constification

2000-11-07 Thread Dr S N Henson
Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote: I've become irritated enough with some functions not having const used properly (or at least what appears proper), so I've started working on bringing better use of const to OpenSSL, as some may already have noticed. This may, for a few days, bring

Re: Constification

2000-11-07 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
From: Dr S N Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] drh There's a couple of areas I noticed that could be constified. The EVP drh library's use of EVP_MD and EVP_CIPHER is the main one. I also noticed drh that the version strings for some reason weren't constified. Thanks, I'll look at those next (after I've

Re: RSAref code byebye?

2000-11-07 Thread Jim Russell
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 12:19:16PM +0100 or thereabouts, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote: However, before we (the OpenSSL dev team) do this, we'd like to know what the opinion is out there. Shall we remove the RSAref glue code, or does it need to be kept for a little while yet? I'd

Re: RSAref code byebye?

2000-11-07 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote: Both these facts basically make RSAref as valuable as a removed appendix. +1, I'm for killing it if no unforeseen problems are highlighted. Idea: are there any people listening in from FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Redhat, etc who currently bundle

Re: RSAref code byebye?

2000-11-07 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
From: Jim Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] jrussell I'd like to make an alternate suggestion -- that you instead jrussell *replace* the RSAref glue code with the BSAFE glue code jrussell (either the LymeWare or Bixby patches). There are still jrussell valid reasons for using the BSAFE API with

Re: cvs commit: openssl-play/levitte FAQ faq.cgi faq.html

2000-11-07 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] levitte levitte 07-Nov-2000 16:42:52 levitte levitte Added: levitte FAQ faq.cgi faq.html levitte Log: levitte My attempt at a more structured FAQ and the script that presents it. Please try it out and say what you think The resulting HTML output can

RE: cvs commit: openssl-play/levitte FAQ faq.cgi faq.html

2000-11-07 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
-Original Message- From: Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 5:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: cvs commit: openssl-play/levitte FAQ faq.cgi faq.html From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] levitte levitte 07-Nov-2000 16:42:52

Re: cvs commit: openssl/rsaref rsaref.h rsaref.c

2000-11-07 Thread Geoff Thorpe
Hi again, On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Geoff Thorpe wrote: Umm ... whatever you did is now causing commit messages themselves to go to openssl-dev, rather than just replies to them. A crude fix would be to filter on the subject header perhaps? Replies or forwards typically have an "Re", "Fw" or

Re: RSAref code byebye?

2000-11-07 Thread Bob Beck
However, before we (the OpenSSL dev team) do this, we'd like to know what the opinion is out there. Shall we remove the RSAref glue code, or does it need to be kept for a little while yet? Blow it away. It's evil. -Bob -- Bob Beck Computing and

Re: problems with `configure`..

2000-11-07 Thread Dan Kegel
"g. labe" wrote: i'm trying to compile and install openldap v2.0.6 on my solaris 2.6 machine (sparc). openldap requires openssl - i compiled it (v0.9.6) without a problem and installed it with `make install` in standard location (`/usr/local/ssl`). now, when i run openldap's `configure` i

Re: cvs commit: openssl-play/levitte FAQ faq.cgi faq.html

2000-11-07 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
From: Bernard Dautrevaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dautrevaux Just a thing: why the '[user]" tag and the first question Dautrevaux in the [user] section are they displayed in fixed font? Dautrevaux looks a bit ugly ?-( Interesting, that's actually a bug that is there in the current FAQ as well, it just

Re: How can I join your Team?

2000-11-07 Thread Robert Carl Rice
I have a question that may relate. I've used the perl libwww and OpenSSL to make outgoing connections to secure web servers. However, libwww doesn't seem to support using perl to create a secure web server so I have to resort to extending a web server using CGIs. Does OpenSSL and perl support

Re: Constification

2000-11-07 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
From: "Paul D. Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] psmith This is similar to standard C functions which take a const psmith char*, for example, and return a char* that points into the psmith string. Like strstr()... psmith IMHO this is a legitimate reason to cast away const, and that psmith the "const"

Re: Constification

2000-11-07 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: rl From: "Paul D. Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] psmith This is similar to standard C functions which take a const psmith char*, for example, and return a char* that points into the psmith string. rl Like strstr()... Yep. Plus

Re: cvs commit: openssl/crypto/bn bn.h bn_exp.c bn_exp2.c bn_gcd.cbn_lib.c bn_mont.c bn_mul.c bn_prime.c bn_recp.c bn_shift.c bn_sqr.cbntest.c

2000-11-07 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
From: Ulf Moeller [EMAIL PROTECTED] ulf What impact does that have on the performance? ulf ulf openssl speed is 15% slower for 1024 bit RSA signatures. That is ulf totally unacceptable (except for the DEBUG version); I hope we don't ulf have to have an argument about that. I'm starting to

Re: RSAref code byebye?

2000-11-07 Thread Jim Russell
On or about Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 04:58:07PM +0100, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote: When you say "hardware crypto", my brain goes *dingdingdingdingding*! The thing is that with the current snapshots, it would be perfectly possible to create a BSAFE engine. That can be created completely

Building outside the source tree

2000-11-07 Thread Jim Russell
I have a quick question for the developers, before I go spelunking through the perl scripts... Has anyone tried a Make process that leaves the source tree undisturbed? You know, where you create a separate "build-for-my-target-platform" directory outside the source tree, and run a configure

Re: RSAref code byebye?

2000-11-07 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
From: Jim Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] jrussell Ooh -- I *like* that idea. Thought you would :-). jrussell Of course, now I'll have to go read source code to figure jrussell out what you've been doing with that engine branch... g You do know, don't you, that the engine code is not part of the

Re: Building outside the source tree

2000-11-07 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
From: Jim Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] jrussell I have a quick question for the developers, before I go spelunking jrussell through the perl scripts... Has anyone tried a Make process that jrussell leaves the source tree undisturbed? You know, where you create a jrussell separate

Re: Building outside the source tree

2000-11-07 Thread Jim Russell
On or about Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 10:49:23PM +0100, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote: Yup. The attached script (create-build-tree.sh) helps you doing exactly that. If you rsync the openssl-play part of the CVS repository, it's found in openssl-play/levitte/hacks/. You're a gentleman and a

Re: RSAref code byebye?

2000-11-07 Thread Ulf Moeller
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote: You do know, don't you, that the engine code is not part of the main development line? s/not/now/ __ OpenSSL Project

Re: Constification

2000-11-07 Thread Ulf Moeller
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000, Paul D. Smith wrote: I sent this patch back on 05 May 2000, constifying crypto/lhash. Your patch can only be accepted if you CC it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ OpenSSL Project

Re: cvs commit: openssl/crypto/dso dso_dl.c

2000-11-07 Thread Mixmaster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Modified:.CHANGES Configure crypto/dso dso_dl.c Log: shl_load() also needs to load along a path given through an environment variable, SHLIB_PATH. This change makes that possible. Loading shared libs from SHLIB_PATH or