> I can succesfully compile and run OpenSSL 0.9.5, Apache 1.3.12
> with mod_perl
> 1.24, and mod_ssl 2.6.5-1.3.12 (As you can see... all of these
> are the last
> releases of every packet). Though when trying to establish a
> secured connection
> from Netscape 4.08 under Windows NT the handshake fails. And I
> get the message
> below from Netscape:
>
> "The security library has experienced an out of memory error.
> Please try to reconnect."
>
> When I access the same https://url with MSIE5 everything works fine.
>
> This is what I get in the ssl_engine_log:
>
> [03/Aug/2000 14:22:42 25572] [info]  Connection to child 0 established
> (server fbsd1.advtech.uswest.com:443, client 130.13.41.141)
> [03/Aug/2000 14:22:42 25572] [info]  Seeding PRNG with 1160 bytes
> of entropy
> [03/Aug/2000 14:22:43 25572] [error] SSL handshake failed
> (server fbsd1.advtech.uswest.com:443, client 130.13.41.141)
> (OpenSSL library error follows)
> [03/Aug/2000 14:22:43 25572] [error]
> OpenSSL: error:14094412::lib(20) :func(148):reason(1042)
>
> Since this looks like a Netscape problem... Does somebody out
> there has any idea
> if Netscape 4.x supports a RSA-key of 1160 bytes?
>
> Thanks... any help would be very appreciate it?

Have you seen this FAQ?  http://www.modssl.org/docs/2.6/ssl_faq.html#ToC49

This is the only reason I have seen recnet versions of Netscape to fail.  I
just downloaded and tried NS 4.08 (on Linux) and it worked fine on my
installation of mod_ssl.

What type of certificate are you using?

-Dave

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