Re: Self-signed certificate

2012-09-26 Thread Curt Sampson
, the AuthorityKeyIdentifier extension, and suchlike? Also, you'll get more replies if you post a fresh message to the list when you have a fresh question, rather than replying to a mesasge deep in an unrelated topic chain that people might be ignoring. cjs -- Curt Sampson c...@cynic.net +81

Re: OpenSSL-1.0.1c non-blocking io int_thread_release, bad reference count

2012-09-26 Thread Curt Sampson
, that's two threads concurrently using one connection. And underneath the covers, as it were, both threads may be both reading and writing, since a read or write to an OpenSSL handle can translate to both reads and writes on the underlying TCP handle. cjs -- Curt Sampson c...@cynic.net

Re: OpenSSL-1.0.1c non-blocking io int_thread_release, bad reference count

2012-09-26 Thread Curt Sampson
handle a simultaneous read on one thread and write from a different thread. cjs -- Curt Sampson c...@cynic.net +81 90 7737 2974 It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one. --Alan Perlis, Epigrams on Programming (#7

Re: Looking for advice on session renegotiation

2012-08-20 Thread Curt Sampson
, and as well as similarly long-running connections, I'm wondering what, if anything, I need to do about re-seeding OpenSSL's PRNG. How long is it safe to leave it running in a moderately busy system (several TLS connections per second), and is that even the metric one should use? cjs -- Curt Sampson

X509_STORE_add_cert() wants modifiable X509*

2012-08-13 Thread Curt Sampson
need to give an OpenSSL function (outside of trivial accessors) an X509*? Also, is there any documentation on how memory management for this sort of stuff is working in general in the OpenSSL library? The code is heavily macro-driven and I'm finding it rather confusing. cjs -- Curt Sampson

Re: Whether OpenSSL produced X509 V3 certificate is compliant with RFC-5280.

2012-05-30 Thread Curt Sampson
. It depends on what you put in the certificate. OpenSSL 0.9.7a certainly capable of producing RFC-5280-compliant certificates, but you can also easily produce non-compliant certificates as well. cjs -- Curt Sampson c...@cynic.net +81 90 7737 2974 Then I ducked into Burger King

OpenSSL API and Memory Management

2012-05-22 Thread Curt Sampson
that. cjs -- Curt Sampson c...@cynic.net +81 90 7737 2974 Then I ducked into Burger King to scarf down a whopper with 45 pieces of bacon on it! Oh, oh!--JayDogg __ OpenSSL Project

Re: OpenSSL API and Memory Management

2012-05-22 Thread Curt Sampson
On 2012-05-23 13:26 +0900 (Wed), Curt Sampson wrote: The application I'm concerned with Oh, one more thing I forgot about the application: we're using our own means of certificate and CRL distrubution and storage, so in generally we have DER representations of this stuff in memory, rather

Re: smaller openSSL library

2012-05-09 Thread Curt Sampson
systems. That said, I've only looked at it, not used it. cjs -- Curt Sampson c...@cynic.net +81 90 7737 2974 Then I ducked into Burger King to scarf down a whopper with 45 pieces of bacon on it! Oh, oh!--JayDogg

x509 -nameopt show_type crash

2012-03-05 Thread Curt Sampson
-- Curt Sampson c...@cynic.net +81 90 7737 2974 http://www.starling-software.com/ I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. --Bjarne Stroustrup

Re: Distinguishing a CA certificate from an end entity certificate Reg.

2012-02-23 Thread Curt Sampson
, please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but this is basically what I've gotten from many hours of study on this over the last few months in preparation for setting up my own PKI.) cjs -- Curt Sampson c...@cynic.net +81 90 7737 2974 http://www.starling

Re: Why CVS?

2012-02-15 Thread Curt Sampson
which is well documented; if you want a real challange read up on the NetBSD issues and try a conversion yourself. cjs -- Curt Sampson c...@cynic.net +81 90 7737 2974 http://www.starling-software.com/ I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my

Customer Enterprise X.509 Extension OID Assignment

2012-02-06 Thread Curt Sampson
Enterprise Codes, but I gather that others use this for pretty much anything where they need a unique OID.) [1]: http://www.iana.org/assignments/enterprise-numbers cjs -- Curt Sampson c...@cynic.net +81 90 7737 2974 http://www.starling-software.com/ I have always wished

Re: Customer Enterprise X.509 Extension OID Assignment

2012-02-06 Thread Curt Sampson
move that direction. Thanks again for your help. cjs -- Curt Sampson c...@cynic.net +81 90 7737 2974 http://www.starling-software.com/ I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out

Re: Openssl as a library in iOS/Certificate Signing Request PKCS10

2012-02-06 Thread Curt Sampson
something where you want to read encrypted data at a later date (e.g., S/MIME e-mail messages), tossing the keypair you need to read this these is kind of a bad idea cjs -- Curt Sampson c...@cynic.net +81 90 7737 2974 http://www.starling-software.com/ I have always

Re: Verify intermediate certificate

2012-01-15 Thread Curt Sampson
by the master CA rather than a client CA. cjs -- Curt Sampson c...@cynic.net +81 90 7737 2974 http://www.starling-software.com/ I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my

Re: revoking a certificate without having to provide pass phrase as next step

2011-11-28 Thread Curt Sampson
implications. cjs -- Curt Sampson c...@cynic.net +81 90 7737 2974 http://www.starling-software.com/ I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. --Bjarne Stroustrup

Re: TLS Overhead

2011-11-20 Thread Curt Sampson
the CPU for RC4-MD5). cjs -- Curt Sampson c...@cynic.net +81 90 7737 2974 http://www.starling-software.com/ I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone

Re: TLS Overhead

2011-11-13 Thread Curt Sampson
authentication of our data entirely. I'd be interested in ideas about how to avoid doing this. cjs -- Curt Sampson c...@cynic.net +81 90 7737 2974 http://www.starling-software.com/ I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true

Re: TLS Overhead

2011-11-13 Thread Curt Sampson
private CA only (so a Comodo incident will not affect it). Yes, my PKI is entirely private, with no connection to any other PKI. The certificates aren't even compatible. cjs -- Curt Sampson c...@cynic.net +81 90 7737 2974 http://www.starling-software.com/ I have always

Fwd: OpenSSL Mailing List Question

2011-11-07 Thread Curt Sampson
we're at it, can someone point me to a reference on the OIDs used for the various field names (CN etc.) used within distinguished names? This didn't really seem to be mentioned in the X.501 spec. cjs -- Curt Sampson c...@cynic.net +81 90 7737 2974 http://www.starling