Slow Generation of RSA private keys and SSL handshake on HP-UX 9000/xxx...

1999-07-13 Thread Patrick Harlin
One Strange thing though is that when I ran openssl for the first time I got something saying "Unable to get random, try to use option -rand". But after I used "make test" this behavour vanished ??? But it is stil very slow generating the private keys /Patrick

ASN1 string types help

1999-07-13 Thread Damien Miller
My brain is being slowly roasted trying to grok the profusion of ASN1 string encodings. I am trying to write a small C app that generates and signs certificate requests, but I am having trouble finding which encoding to use. The PKIX RFC recommends UTF8Strings, but allows the following:

Re: Slow Generation of RSA private keys and SSL handshake on HP-UX 9000/xxx...

1999-07-13 Thread Holger Reif
Patrick Harlin schrieb: One Strange thing though is that when I ran openssl for the first time I got something saying "Unable to get random, try to use option -rand". But after I used "make test" this behavour vanished ??? Thsi is normal behaviour. OpenSSL creates a randseed file in which

Re: ASN1 string types help

1999-07-13 Thread Dr Stephen Henson
Damien Miller wrote: My brain is being slowly roasted trying to grok the profusion of ASN1 string encodings. I am trying to write a small C app that generates and signs certificate requests, but I am having trouble finding which encoding to use. The PKIX RFC recommends UTF8Strings, but

Fw: Slow Generation of RSA private keys and SSL handshake on HP-UX 9000/xxx...

1999-07-13 Thread Patrick Harlin
Now I have checked with HP and it is the same processortypes in the different HP machines ( They do not differ in instructions inside the CPU ). They are supposed to handle large numbers in the same way. The slower machine has actually a faster processor 64 MHz vs. 48 MHz. Earlier I used a

Re: Legalities of Using openssl in the US

1999-07-13 Thread Tim
You can use the RSAref library kit inside the US for non-commercial use, but good luck finding it, RSA pulled it off their website a few months ago. look on replay.com, it's there (both versions). -- "A computer system without Microsoft products is like a dog without bricks

Re: MSIE certificate expiration problem

1999-07-13 Thread Juan Carlos Castro y Castro
HAHAHAHAHA! Y2K bug on Win98!!! I had this one too. Radovan Semancik wrote: Hello! I have problem with OpenSSL generated certificates. MSIE 4 and MSIE 5 both say that this certificate has expored: Validity Not Before: Jul 13 14:36:12 1999 GMT Not After :

MSIE certificate expiration problem

1999-07-13 Thread Guatam . X . Dev
What are the validity dates for the Issuer i.e. Issuer: C=SK, L=Bratislava, O=Business Global Systems, CN=Identity root Certificate [EMAIL PROTECTED] compare the dates with the Server cert validity.. Server cert validity has to be within the issuer cert validity.. ; Hello! I have problem

Re: MSIE certificate expiration problem

1999-07-13 Thread Michael Ströder
Erwann ABALEA wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Radovan Semancik wrote: I have problem with OpenSSL generated certificates. MSIE 4 and MSIE 5 both say that this certificate has expored: [..] - the server/client certificate has a notAfterDate that falls AFTER the CA's one... It's

openssl and net-ssleay

1999-07-13 Thread David Braginsky
I am trying to create a secure scriptible client in perl, and thought net-ssleay would be the best choice. I am developing under nt (not my own choice) but it shouldn't matter. I have been trying to get server certificate verification to work, but the documentation states that the examples