Re: openssl-users Digest, Vol 63, Issue 35

2020-02-21 Thread Clay Shields
Thank you! That was the issue. Clay > On Feb 21, 2020, at 7:54 AM, openssl-users-requ...@openssl.org wrote: > > Message: 5 > Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 22:51:51 +1000 > From: Dr Paul Dale > To: openssl-users > Subject: Re: CRYPTO_secure_malloc_init() fails without error message > Message-ID:

Re: Questions about using Elliptic Curve ciphers in OpenSSL

2020-02-21 Thread Jason Schultz
Nicola...my apologies for the typo... From: openssl-users on behalf of Jason Schultz Sent: Friday, February 21, 2020 1:05 PM To: Nicola Tuveri Cc: openssl-users Subject: Re: Questions about using Elliptic Curve ciphers in OpenSSL Nicole- This was very

Re: Questions about using Elliptic Curve ciphers in OpenSSL

2020-02-21 Thread Jason Schultz
Nicole- This was very helpful, thank you for taking the time to respond. I was confused about the parameters files, I understand why they are not needed. Also, I should have been more clear, the creation of these cert/key pairs is strictly for testing purposes (and to give our users an easy

Re: CRYPTO_secure_malloc_init() fails without error message

2020-02-21 Thread Dr Paul Dale
> CRYPTO_secure_malloc_init(OPENSSL_MIN_HEAP_SIZE, OPENSSL_MIN_HEAP_SIZE); I’d strongly suggest not passing the same value in the second position. This parameter sets the minimum block size that can be allocated in the secure heap. The init call returns an error in this situation. Do this

Re: CRYPTO_secure_malloc_init() fails without error message

2020-02-21 Thread Clay Shields
Unfortunately that didn’t seem to be it. Updating my code to verify that I am root and running it: Output: The effective user id is 0 The real user id is 0 failed to init openssl secure heap the error may be (null) Code: #include #include #include #include #include #include #include