Re: [openssl.org #81] Bug Report 0.9.7b1: make install broken on NeXTSTEP/OpenStep

2002-06-05 Thread Robert Joop
On 02-06-05 15:43:45 CEST, Rich Salz wrote: Richard Levitte via RT wrote: Can I assume that sed exists and works properly? dirname can be coded like this: echo $$i | sed -e 's|[^/]*$||' -e 's|/$||' dirname foo returns . which the above doesn't catch. I can only think of the

strangeness in `x509 -noout -text` output

2002-04-26 Thread Robert Joop
`x509 -noout -text` prints inconsistent output. ... openssl x509 -noout -text -in old.pem | grep Issuer: Issuer: [EMAIL PROTECTED], CN=CA UCO, O=Universidad de Cordoba, C=ES ... openssl x509 -noout -text -in new.pem | grep Issuer: Issuer: C=ES, O=Universidad de Cordoba, CN=AC

DN handling

2002-04-19 Thread Robert Joop
the DN handling in openssl seems to be a little uneven. getting special characters in seems to be no problem when using the interactive interface (at least when 'special' restricts itself to the ASCII characters with special syntactic function). but as soon as it comes to looking at the result,

Re: Wrong DNs

2002-04-17 Thread Robert Joop
On 02-04-16 16:49:25 CEST, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote: BTW, thinking about it, I'm not sure why this discussion acme up at all. Certificates are often stored as attributes of a record (eh, terminology isn't a strength of mine, so if record isn't the proper term, please pardon me),

Re: Wrong DNs

2002-04-16 Thread Robert Joop
On 02-04-16 11:02:58 CEST, Howard Chu wrote: the order of everything. Certificates are specified in X.509 and are properly a part of the X.500 family, and the X.500 DN syntax is clearly specified. the syntax is clearly specified, but the only thing that i could find about the RDN order is

Re: Wrong DNs

2002-04-16 Thread Robert Joop
On 02-04-16 10:51:31 CEST, Howard Chu wrote: At its core, LDAP is simply a different front-end for the X.500 information model. A DN is a name that uniquely identifies an object in the X.500 name space. Practically speaking, a DN is a DN. In pure X.500, DNs are specified to be big-endian,

[joop@fokus.gmd.de: SPKAC file and non-ASCII DNs]

2002-03-27 Thread Robert Joop
i sent this to -users a few days ago, but perhaps the people who know the answer only hang around on -dev...? rj ---BeginMessage--- when i create a client certificate using a mozilla browser, a CGI script generates an SPKAC file for use with `openssl ca -spkac infile`. the DN then becomes of

Re: -utf8 option

2002-03-26 Thread Robert Joop
On 02-03-26 12:09:59 CET, Robert Joop wrote: On 02-03-25 18:03:56 CET, Stephen Sprunk wrote: Here's the more interesting question: why do we have a switch for UTF-8 encoding, instead of determining it from the user's locale? what is the canonical way to detect this? following up

Re: -utf8 option

2002-03-26 Thread Robert Joop
On 02-03-26 15:01:37 CET, George Rogers wrote: Have you guys forgotten that the client and server are on different ends of the wire? Which end of the wire is going to use the certificate? Which end of the wire is creating the certificate? The switch has to be there to allow creation

-utf8 option

2002-03-25 Thread Robert Joop
the explanation of the -utf8 option doesn't make sense, does it? quote src=http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/req.html; -utf8 this option causes field values to be interpreted as UTF8 strings, by default they are interpreted as ASCII. This means that the field values, whether prompted from a

Re: openssl ca sets wrong authorityKeyIdentifier

2002-03-19 Thread Robert Joop
On 02-03-19 23:05:52 CET, Dr S N Henson wrote: I can't see how that can happen. The ca command only passes the issuing CA certificate to the extension routines. It does not have access to any other CA certificate. It fills in the authority key identifier by extracting the issuer name of that

Re: 0.9.5a won't compile under solaris 1.1.1

2000-07-11 Thread Robert Joop
On 00-07-11 23:25:44 MET DST, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote: From: Robert Joop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please try the latest snapshot and see if that helps. No guarantees, though... rj OpenSSL version: 0.9.5a rj Last change: Make sure _lrotl and _lrotr are only used with MSVC