Re: Certificate and Certificate request (Using API)

2012-07-30 Thread Mark H. Wood
and we should have a friendly script or cookbook for this available somewhere. Fixing this will relieve you guys of answering all these inquiries via email. TinyCA has, so far, sufficed for my modest needs. http://tinyca.sm-zone.net/ -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu

Re: Best practice for client cert name checking

2012-10-08 Thread Mark H. Wood
the certificate has changed, a system supporting certificate pinning will warn you. I believe this is what the Certificate Patrol plugin for Firefox is doing, if you want to see it in action. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Asking whether markets are efficient is like asking

Re: I can't believe how much this sucks

2012-11-13 Thread Mark H. Wood
. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Asking whether markets are efficient is like asking whether people are smart. pgpNJNzqoTBIj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ssh-add refuses to use the key on my USB thumb drive

2013-12-12 Thread Mark H. Wood
Or 'mount -o umask=077' I think. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Machines should not be friendly. Machines should be obedient. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Generating a renewal CSR from existing CSR?

2008-03-25 Thread Mark H. Wood
for next year. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is intuitive he means the exact opposite. pgpwLwFBU4rOO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Code goes into a loop

2008-06-13 Thread Mark H. Wood
to be run by something like inetd). -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is intuitive he means the exact opposite. pgpqBeVFub079.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: extended validation certificates

2008-08-25 Thread Mark H. Wood
-signed cert.s would pass the audit, but your CA doesn't have to work that way. The question then is whether the ability to issue EV cert.s yourself is worth the effort and expense of doing it properly. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor

Re: Year 2038 problem

2008-10-06 Thread Mark H. Wood
to get in. Meaning the world will be effectively, totally disarmed. So long as *none* of the parties fix their clocks first. We must not have a clock-width gap! :-) -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is intuitive he

Re: Need help with keytool

2009-02-24 Thread Mark H. Wood
application cares. Same with using the password 'password'. :-O Do they leave a key under the doormat, too? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Friends don't let friends publish revisable-form documents. pgpVHchmnYVTo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Need help with keytool

2009-02-25 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 03:11:29PM -0800, John Oliver wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 03:48:21PM -0500, Mark H. Wood wrote: I don't think Sun keytool will do thist step. You can export certificates but not private keys -- at least, I've never found a way to move private keys in or out using

Re: Need help with keytool

2009-02-25 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 03:17:52PM -0800, John Oliver wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 03:48:21PM -0500, Mark H. Wood wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 08:02:30AM -0800, John Oliver wrote: 10. Right click on the displayed keypair and Rename it to 'key' -changealias -alias OLDNAME

Re: OpenSSL 1.0.0 beta 1 released

2009-04-03 Thread Mark H. Wood
That's a Layer 1/2 issue. Perhaps you mean RFC 3514? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Friends don't let friends publish revisable-form documents. pgpD1Wm4j9Cwx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Geode on-chip AES 128-bit crypto accelerations but OpenSSL doesn't use it

2009-09-29 Thread Mark H. Wood
is doing strategic positioning that AMD is not.) That's smart of Intel. But again, if AMD have released spec.s under liberal terms then maybe they think they *are* positioning their product, and nobody has picked up on it yet. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Friends don't

Re: General question about documentation

2009-12-02 Thread Mark H. Wood
if it does not model the problem that the code is intended to solve. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Friends don't let friends publish revisable-form documents. pgpKR3QEobidk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: General question about documentation

2009-12-02 Thread Mark H. Wood
not, and it is precisely that knowledge which gives documentation much of its value. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Friends don't let friends publish revisable-form documents. pgpwKJpF5MXBS.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: CPU usage and FPGA support

2010-03-11 Thread Mark H. Wood
don't have to make practical sense, so long as they make educational sense. Anyway, when did anyone pass a law that says requirements have to be sensible? :-) -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Friends don't let friends publish revisable-form documents

Re: How to make a legit CA cert?

2010-06-01 Thread Mark H. Wood
they slather onto the EULA. We should all check and tune our browsers' trust lists. (No, I haven't.) -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Balance your desire for bells and whistles with the reality that only a little more than 2 percent of world population has broadband

Re: Error signing certificates with my own CA... Configuration file?

2010-09-28 Thread Mark H. Wood
not to use such a tool, you may learn some useful things by studying the code. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Balance your desire for bells and whistles with the reality that only a little more than 2 percent of world population has broadband. -- Ledford and Tyler

Re: [openssl-users] Re: How to disable index and serial?

2011-01-12 Thread Mark H. Wood
the randomness of a single sample? 1 is every bit as random (or nonrandom) as 0xdcb4a459f014617692d112f0942c89cb. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Asking whether markets are efficient is like asking whether people are smart. pgp4K28h90CTU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How to disable index and serial?

2011-01-12 Thread Mark H. Wood
that provides locking? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Asking whether markets are efficient is like asking whether people are smart. pgp0W7wcocR7D.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [openssl-users] Re: How to disable index and serial?

2011-01-13 Thread Mark H. Wood
Ah. I did not understand that referenced by browser vendors meant we were talking about inclusion in their canned trust stores. Thanks, both of you. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Asking whether markets are efficient is like asking whether people are smart

Re: My bank has an invalid cert

2011-08-26 Thread Mark H. Wood
that remains is which Root CA. That can only be done by reading the certificate hierarchy that is presented by the bank's server, which it should provide you upon making an s_client connection. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Asking whether markets are efficient

Re: My bank has an invalid cert

2011-08-26 Thread Mark H. Wood
. Better to say: if users canNOT manipulate the root certificate store, then it would be impossible to trust anything. The whole point is *my* trust. (And yours.) -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Asking whether markets are efficient is like asking whether people

Re: how do i escape spaces in -subj (DN) arg to req?

2006-08-18 Thread Mark H. Wood
3.00.0(1)-release and it works just fine: mhw:~$ openssl req -text -noout ny.req Certificate Request: Data: Version: 0 (0x0) Subject: C=US, ST=NY, L=New York etc. - -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says

0.9.8d configure overrides -march=; any workaround?

2006-09-28 Thread Mark H. Wood
this decision to the builder. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is intuitive he means the exact opposite. pgp1Xi1tjl9jC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: HTTPS security model

2006-12-05 Thread Mark H. Wood
me to trust this object. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is intuitive he means the exact opposite. pgpz4zisIJ0da.pgp Description: PGP signature

Verifying that a private key and certificate match

2007-02-19 Thread Mark H. Wood
Is there a built-in command in the openssl utility which can verify that a private key and a certificate represent a valid keypair? Or is there some simple way to determine this using other built-in commands? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software

Re: renewing certificate

2007-04-17 Thread Mark H. Wood
I went to www.microsoft.com and searched for IIS install certificate. The first hit led me to: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms751408.aspx with step-by-step instructions. (Ignore the leading part about 'makecert', of course -- you already have a certificate.) -- Mark H. Wood

Re: LDAP instead of /etc/ssl/certs ?

2007-07-20 Thread Mark H. Wood
agree that it takes careful attention to detail if it is to be secured. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is intuitive he means the exact opposite. pgpZJcxMK3gG2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Changing the expiry date of a cert

2007-10-19 Thread Mark H. Wood
be NO. It truly doesn't matter whether you made a new certificate or updated the old one, because in either case you must distribute it again in a trustworthy manner or nobody will trust it. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product

Re: [openssl-users] Re: openssl req -x509 does not create serial-number 0

2006-02-28 Thread Mark H. Wood
a field described as a serial number and ask why it isn't behaving properly. It's too bad the standard calls this attribute a serial number rather than, say, certificate unique identifier, but the term is fixed now. - -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open-source

Re: CSR Without Prompting

2006-06-10 Thread Mark H. Wood
appropriate substitutions from the form data? Or if your form processor isn't a convenient place to do this, you could fork a command that pipes the template through e.g. sed. - -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product

RE: introduction

2003-03-14 Thread Mark H. Wood
many more yet to be discovered. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] MS Windows *is* user-friendly, but only for certain values of user. __ OpenSSL Project http

Re: Securing a CA

2004-04-22 Thread Mark H. Wood
*both*, note a discrepancy, yell bloody murder! and ask the user for a decision. If I've misunderstood the problem, what would you recommend I read? - -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open-source executable: $0.00. Source: $0.00 Control: priceless! -BEGIN PGP

Re: Does a root CA need two certificates?

2005-01-19 Thread Mark H. Wood
in determining the kind of identity you want to prove. The same is true of X.509 or OpenPGP certificates, or really any other identifier. It's always necessary to decide what it is you want to know, before accepting something as identification. - -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL

RE: Apps over SSL

2000-09-18 Thread Mark H. Wood
ht to move to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or comp.security.ssh . -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2000-05-05 13:27:15 GMT -- still no icebergs in the White River __ OpenSSL Project

Re: Exportable cipher suite

2001-02-19 Thread Mark H. Wood
for secure communication. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make a good day. __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List[EMAIL

Re: Please reconfigure majordomo to not set Reply-To (was: Failedto clean virus file Emanuel.exe)

2001-08-21 Thread Mark H. Wood
reflector to *add* this header, and I appreciate the service. Besides, I'm getting a nice list of virus-scanner companies that don't know how to write proper autoresponders. :-/ -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make a good day

Re: OpenSSL on itanium [going offtopic]

2001-08-22 Thread Mark H. Wood
. Anybody know whatever happened to the Dragon graphics chip? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make a good day. __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing

Re: Wasn't someone joking about the virus being posted by an autoresponder

2001-08-23 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Caliban Tiresias Darklock wrote: Just out of curiosity, why are attachments allowed on the list in the first place? Is there any legitimate reason for it? Well, why not? Is there any legitimate reason *not* to? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: OpenSSL and Kerberos, again

1999-01-16 Thread Mark H. Wood
look through the stuff that 1.1 is known to break and see if I can safely upgrade. (Then I'll have to tweak ssh) -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please, no more software products offering a "richer experience"! I have indigestion of the brain already. Give

Re: OpenSSL and Mac OS and export fun

1999-11-22 Thread Mark H. Wood
in writing? It is difficult to get telephone conversations into court. Each party contrives to remember them differently. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please, no more software products offering a "richer experience"! I have indigestion of the brain alre

Re: Commercial SSL in the US

2000-03-10 Thread Mark H. Wood
ir license until then. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Definitely NOT a lawyer. __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List[EMAIL

Re: Verisign/NSI/Thawte monopoly

2000-03-31 Thread Mark H. Wood
that a certificate asserting that it belogs to B was in fact issued to B, other than to trust that A has diligently investigated the requestor's claims and met our standards for establishing that that person is in fact B? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Where's the k

Re: Verisign/NSI/Thawte monopoly

2000-03-31 Thread Mark H. Wood
re channel to an unknown endpoint. Do lots of people really believe that it means any more than that? That is frightening. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!" -- Marvin Martian,

Compiling against OpenSSL built with no-idea?

2000-05-28 Thread Mark H. Wood
be informed that IDEA is to be ignored? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2000-05-05 13:27:15 GMT -- still no icebergs in the White River __ OpenSSL Project http

Re: ASN.1 encoding of negative integers

2001-10-17 Thread Mark H. Wood
. An eight-bit signed value of -2 would be 254 if interpreted as unsigned. I can recommend Olivier Dubuisson's book on ASN.1, but my copy is at home now so I can't refer to it. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make a good day

Re: PKI book in relation to VPNs

2001-12-06 Thread Mark H. Wood
something off the shelf, slam it in, do five minutes of cookbook setup, and forget it ever happened. It's much harder to find books which promote actual *understanding*. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Our lives are forever changed. But *that* is exactly as it always

RE: Duplicate Posts

2002-03-20 Thread Mark H. Wood
procmail 3.14 to be sorted into various mailboxes, and is read using pine 4.33. Here some posts are multiplied up to five times, and some are not. That suggests a gateway which is common to some, but not all, posters. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Our lives

Re: Is OpenSSL Production Ready?

2002-04-05 Thread Mark H. Wood
for daring to call themselves Yoga Inside, on the (ludicrous IMHO) grounds that that name harms their trademark. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] MS Windows *is* user-friendly, but only for certain values of user

Re: Is OpenSSL Production Ready?

2002-04-05 Thread Mark H. Wood
* compatibly installed on one box.) IIRC the Ethereal folk have also run up against this problem. I'm not asking for anything at this time; I just wanted to provide a couple of data points. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] MS Windows *is* user-friendly, but only

Re: Is OpenSSL Production Ready?

2002-04-08 Thread Mark H. Wood
thought of that, and it sounds like fun too. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] MS Windows *is* user-friendly, but only for certain values of user. __ OpenSSL Project http

RE: Which product to buy?

2002-05-14 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Tue, 14 May 2002, Franck Martin wrote: [snip] Who can't see that this message is digitaly signed and do you know why? I can see that it is signed, but pine doesn't know what to do with an Application/X-PKCS7-SIGNATURE bodypart. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL

Re: [openssl-users] I'm confused on the big picture. Help?-------=========--------}}}}}}}}

2002-05-16 Thread Mark H. Wood
with OpenSSL_ when it comes out, though. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] MS Windows *is* user-friendly, but only for certain values of user. __ OpenSSL Project http

Re: Errors

2002-06-04 Thread Mark H. Wood
in a pretty package so that you can just push a few buttons and have a private CA ready for use. OTOH OpenSSL lets you see what it is doing, and it's flexible enough to do a lot more than just issue magic numbers. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] MS Windows *is* user-friendly

Re: Upgrading openssl

2002-08-13 Thread Mark H. Wood
which is statically linked with code from the library archives will need to be rebuilt before it can use the updated libraries. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] MS Windows *is* user-friendly, but only for certain values of user

Re: free Certificate Authority

2002-11-04 Thread Mark H. Wood
or I am the person X named in Y's will. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] MS Windows *is* user-friendly, but only for certain values of user. __ OpenSSL Project http

Re: Queries on SubjAltName

2003-01-28 Thread Mark H. Wood
in openssl.cnf file as a comment? Second the motion. Also, openssl.txt is a rather obscure name considering that the document is narrowly focused on two aspects of the package. Shouldn't it be split into X509V3-extensions.txt and PKCS12-library.txt or something like that? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead

Re: SSL Root CA and Intermediate CA Certs.

2014-04-24 Thread Mark H. Wood
that worries you. 5. Goto 3. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Machines should not be friendly. Machines should be obedient. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Linux Foundation Core Infrastructure Initiative fellowships

2014-05-29 Thread Mark H. Wood
\applause all around! -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Machines should not be friendly. Machines should be obedient. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [openssl-users] [openssl-dev] Removing obsolete crypto from OpenSSL 1.1 - seeking feedback

2015-11-17 Thread Mark H. Wood
H. Wood Lead Technology Analyst University Library Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis 755 W. Michigan Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 317-274-0749 www.ulib.iupui.edu signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ openssl-users mailing

Re: [openssl-users] More on cert serialnumbers

2017-08-18 Thread Mark H. Wood
; And unless some or all of the browsers also apply these requirements to > private CAs, you’re not forced to follow them all. How does one mechanically distinguish public vs. private CAs? -- Mark H. Wood Lead Technology Analyst University Library Indiana University - Purdue University Ind

Re: [openssl-users] OpenSSL version 1.0.2l published

2017-06-02 Thread Mark H. Wood
much experience that a file named CHANGES contains *all* of the changes, while a file named RELEASE_NOTES includes selected changes of particular significance. It's confusing to call a release-notes file CHANGES. Appending a note that, for a full change log, [DO THIS], would probably be well recei

Re: [openssl-users] Appropriate use of SSL_CTX_set_cipher_list()

2018-07-19 Thread Mark H. Wood
n another question: do you regularly review the package manager's default cipher list, and have reason to trust it? -- Mark H. Wood Lead Technology Analyst University Library Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis 755 W. Michigan Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 317-274-0749 www.ulib.

Re: How to query current settings/policies?

2021-06-22 Thread Mark H. Wood
ttps://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/14570 > > Unfortunately it was not implemented in time for beta1 so this is now > Post 3.0 item. > > I would recommend explicitly setting security level 0 via a cipher > string when executing the test. I second the motion. If a test is

Re: DH parameter reading in OPENSSL 3

2022-07-14 Thread Mark H. Wood
odes of thought often while working. I agree that a Migration Guide will, after a brief discussion of the high-level differences between old and new, consist mostly of "if you did task T that way before, now you should do it something like this" for many values of T drawn from the Prog