Re: Why does OpenSSL own all the prefixes in the world?

2014-09-10 Thread Ted Byers
cost. It will be interesting to watch how the library evolves over the next decade. Cheers Ted -- R.E.(Ted) Byers, Ph.D.,Ed.D. __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List

Re: Why does OpenSSL own all the prefixes in the world?

2014-09-09 Thread Ted Byers
). In the case of Python, for example, there is a boost library designed specifically for that purpose. From my perspective, that is not a big problem. Rather, it is just one of countless things I routinely have to deal with: just the cost of getting things done. Cheers Ted -- R.E.(Ted) By

Re: Help diagnosing SSL connection problem needed

2014-08-07 Thread Ted Byers
tell it to look at any traffic on port 8443 (or between my workstation and a specific ip address), as well as to let me see the data in plain text rather than hex? Thanks Ted -- R.E.(Ted) Byers, Ph.D.,Ed.D. __ OpenSSL Projec

Help diagnosing SSL connection problem needed

2014-08-05 Thread Ted Byers
be used to help Wireshark provide more useful information; but I have no idea how to tell Wireshark to use them, if in fact using them would be useful (I started working with Wireshark this past Friday). Thanks Ted -- R.E.(Ted) Byers, Ph.D.,Ed.D. __

Re: comment on donations

2014-04-11 Thread Ted Byers
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Geoffrey Coram wrote: > On 04/11/2014 14:46, Ted Byers wrote: >> >> And guess what I just found. ;-) Amazon has special discounts for >> icropayments and nonproft organizations. I do not know if you're a >> 501(c)3 non-profit

Re: comment on donations

2014-04-11 Thread Ted Byers
Thanks Jeff, On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Ted Byers wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Steve Marquess >> wrote: >>> ... >> >> Have you checked out Google and Amazon's payment services?

Re: comment on donations

2014-04-11 Thread Ted Byers
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Ted Byers wrote: > > Have you checked out Google and Amazon's payment services? I have > heard they exist, but haven't checked them out for cost (I may do so, > and soon, as the Canadian bank's support for ecommerce leaves > everyth

Re: comment on donations

2014-04-11 Thread Ted Byers
nadian bank's support for ecommerce leaves everything to be desired: try finding any documentation for their API, or even if they have such an API, for any of the big 5 in Canada). Cheers Ted Cheers Ted -- R.E.(Ted) Byers, Ph.D.,Ed.D. __

Re: OpenSSL Security Advisory

2014-04-09 Thread Ted Byers
Thanks Patrick. Apache lounge already has a patched release released. So, once I deploy that, and get my certificates reissued, I ought to be OK. Thanks Ted -- R.E.(Ted) Byers, Ph.D.,Ed.D. On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Eisenacher, Patrick < patrick.eisenac...@bdr.de> wrote: &g

Re: OpenSSL Security Advisory

2014-04-09 Thread Ted Byers
k? I get the heartbeating message on both unpatched and patched servers. Should that make me worry about the patched machines? Thanks Ted -- R.E.(Ted) Byers, Ph.D.,Ed.D. On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Salz, Rich wrote: > Ø How do I determine whether or not the web servers I run are

Re: OpenSSL Security Advisory

2014-04-09 Thread Ted Byers
introducing other risks? If so, how? Also, could the security keys we bought have been compromised? Any advice on how I can protect my servers better would be appreciated. Thanks Ted -- R.E.(Ted) Byers, Ph.D.,Ed.D. On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 4:31 PM, OpenSSL wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIG

How do RAs fit in with the use of CAs?

2013-11-14 Thread Ted Byers
I have been working through a tutorial that talks about the use of openssl, creating root, intermediate, and signing CAs. While the front page mentions RAs, it says nothing about how they fit, as one is creating CAs, and crts. The only thing that it says is that an RA may be the same as a CA. Bu

DN attributes questions, and OpenSSL/GnuPG interoperability

2013-10-25 Thread Ted Byers
I found the following using Google. ===begin quote=== IETF PKIX (latest version RFC 5280) is a well accepted profile for certificates. From section 4.1.2.4, the following fields must be supported (I've added between parenthesis is the OpenSSL long and optional short name): country (countr

A couple usability questions:

2013-10-21 Thread Ted Byers
I have been working through the tutorial at http://pki-tutorial.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ There are a number of things that aren't clear. 1) Am I right in assuming that the various commands in that tutorial can be performed as an ordinary user in a working directory in that user's home directory

Best practices guidance for using OpenSSL to make cetificate authorities

2013-10-11 Thread Ted Byers
I found a Linux FAQ dealing with this subject, but it is very dated (11.5 years old) and I do not know how much has changed since it was last updated. While I am a programmer, I am looking only to use openssl to make the certificates and keys I need, and not to create new programs using openssl (u

How do I get the .key file, to put on the server (for use by Apache httpd)

2013-09-30 Thread Ted Byers
I issued the following command (with my own name in place of privkey) openssl genrsa -out privkey.pem 2048 I then made the csr using openssl req -new -key privkey.pem -out cert.csr That is simple enough. But, I need a .key file to deploy on the server beside the crt files. If I understand thes

Re: How do I mount a NAS device?

2013-08-08 Thread Ted Byers
OOPS, Thanks guys. Sorry about the noise, I clicked the openssl list instead of the opensuse list by mistake. Thanks again Ted __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List

How do I mount a NAS device?

2013-08-08 Thread Ted Byers
I obtained a NAS, with a view toward running MySQL on a sever running MS Small Business Server 2003 (yes, I know, it is old, but I don't have authority to upgrade it or wipe it and install Linux on it). Anyway, the latest version of MySQL will not run on that machine. Therefore, I intend to run MyS

How to debug notifications about failed authentication

2013-07-05 Thread Ted Byers
I installed the 64 bit Opensuse 12.3 (with KDE) on a small, entry level server. Things generally went flawlessly, with one minor annoyance. I get a 'Notification' every few minutes that says, "Authorization failed" on one line, and "Failed to obtain authentication" on the next. It gives me only

Re: Reg: The private key installation on the client side

2013-05-24 Thread Ted Byers
Hi Jakob On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Jakob Bohm wrote: > On 5/24/2013 9:47 AM, keshava jm wrote: >> > [snip] > The intended and proper way to do things is: > > 1. The CA creates its own private key, which is kept in a very secure > place (like a computer with no network connections, rigge

Re: how to STORE encrypted string in database

2013-03-28 Thread Ted Byers
There is greater need for precision in what is desired. Doing a base64 encoding and storing encrypted data are two entirely different matters, required sometimes in quite different circumstances. I generally do not bother with encoding as that is not normally needed in what I do, but a 30 second

I need a little guidance on openssl.cnf contents

2013-02-11 Thread Ted Byers
I am afraid I have not found adequate documentation that I can use to guide me in editing the contents of openssl.cnf. The comments within the file do not tell me enough about good values to use for the different options that are available. Here are my objectives: 1) A single certificate authori

Need guidance, and examples, of using HTML5's keygen &c., with cgi program

2013-01-15 Thread Ted Byers
that can arise in creating such a system)? I am hoping someone out there can provide info that would spare me further God knows how many weeks or months of frustratingly fruitless searching using Google. Thanks. Ted -- R.E.(Ted) By

Re: Feedback Please: New OpenSSL PKI Tutorial

2012-12-24 Thread Ted Byers
efan > > [1] https://bitbucket.org/stefanholek/pki-tutorial/issues > > -- > Stefan H. Holek > ste...@epy.co.at > > __ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List

What is "Secure Renegotiation" and why is it used, and how to have the client adapt to it?

2012-11-29 Thread Ted Byers
Please consider the following output: C:\Work>openssl s_client -connect secure.theserver.com:443 Loading 'screen' into random state - done CONNECTED(00F0) write:errno=10054 --- no peer certificate available --- No client certificate CA names sent --- SSL handshake has read 0 bytes and written

Re: How do I tell openssl where its configuration file is, without a commandline argument?

2012-11-29 Thread Ted Byers
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Wim Lewis wrote: > > On 28 Nov 2012, at 12:31 PM, Ted Byers wrote: >> Is it possible to tell openssl where the configuration file is, e.g. >> by setting an environment variable, without passing a commandline >> argument? > > > If

How do I tell openssl where its configuration file is, without a commandline argument?

2012-11-28 Thread Ted Byers
The simpler variant of this question, vis how to tell openssl where the configuration file is, is a FAQ, and I have seen it countless times over the past few years, as a result of my searches using Google. However, my present situation is a bit different. I am developing perl programs that must m

Re: I can't believe how much this sucks

2012-11-19 Thread Ted Byers
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:45 AM, John Zavgren wrote: > Thomas: > You make very good suggestions. Of them all (aside from the use of tact in > approaching the developers :-) ), I think that easy-to-follow code examples > would improve the openSSL experience more than anything else you identify. >

Re: I can't believe how much this sucks

2012-11-13 Thread Ted Byers
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:38 PM, alan buxey wrote: > Hi, > > >Nonsense. No-one knows better how the code ought to be working than > the > >folk who developed it. I begin with the assumption that all my > coders are > > > i'd cite the cathedral and the bazaar ...or the 'many eyes make al

Re: I can't believe how much this sucks

2012-11-13 Thread Ted Byers
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 3:18 PM, alan buxey wrote: > Hi, > > >I am not criticising the documentation for openssl, and will not; but > I > >would encourage those who are responsible for maintaining and > improving > >openssl to not neglect the documentation. It would be a mistake to >

Re: I can't believe how much this sucks

2012-11-13 Thread Ted Byers
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Lee Fisher wrote: > For things that the peer support forum and the existing documentation > don't cover, you have the source code, which is definitive. > > Additionally, there are professional OpenSSL consultants you can use for > help. > > It would be more produc

Re: Find the difference in (milli|micro)seconds between two ASN1_TIME values

2012-11-07 Thread Ted Byers
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Graham Leggett wrote: > What I'm after is the difference between the given date and now so that I can > construct a max-age value for Cache-Control. At this stage, there doesn't > seem to be a way to do this in openssl. > > Regards, > Graham > -- Why does it need

Re: https server using openssl

2012-11-01 Thread Ted Byers
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Indtiny s wrote: > Hi, > Thanks for the information , actually I need to write simple webserver for > the android (in the ndk level for some requirement) . > I have added some new CIPHER suite to the openssl as per our requirement . > now I need to write simple we

Re: https server using openssl

2012-10-31 Thread Ted Byers
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Indtiny s wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the suggestion , while browsing about openssl I came across this > site http://www.rtfm.com/openssl-examples/ > > which has code for server which is based on the openssl . > > Can I use that server code for my simple webserv

Re: openssl on a home LAN

2012-09-11 Thread Ted Byers
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:36 PM, John A. Wallace wrote: > ** > > I am trying to figure out whether there is any point in using openssl on > a home LAN between two computers. Would that improve on security in any > way? Would I be limited in the types of OS connections? I mean, could > Iconnect

RE: client server management of client SSL certificates

2012-07-29 Thread Ted Byers
> -Original Message- > From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org [mailto:owner-openssl- > us...@openssl.org] On Behalf Of yyy > Sent: July-29-12 11:18 AM > To: openssl-users@openssl.org > Subject: Re: client server management of client SSL certificates > > On 2012

RE: client server management of client SSL certificates

2012-07-29 Thread Ted Byers
> From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org [mailto:owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org] On Behalf Of Jason Goldberg > Sent: July-29-12 9:43 AM > To: > Subject: Re: client server management of client SSL certificates > Thanks Jason, > There are Javascript libraries which range from generating key pairs t

RE: client server management of client SSL certificates

2012-07-29 Thread Ted Byers
> -Original Message- > From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org [mailto:owner-openssl- > us...@openssl.org] On Behalf Of yyy > Sent: July-29-12 10:09 AM > To: openssl-users@openssl.org > Subject: Re: client server management of client SSL certificates > > On 2012.07.29. 8:52, Sanford Staab wr

Re: how to setup my now CA and where to find an easy to understand guide about PKI (was Re: )

2012-07-26 Thread Ted Byers
until I started getting replies. I'll take a look at these sites and see how far they get me. Thanks Ted > > On Jul 25, 2012, at 19:49 , Ted Byers wrote: > > > Hi All > > > > I just subscribed to this list. > > > > I have some familiarity with openss

Re: how to setup my now CA and where to find an easy to understand guide about PKI (was Re: )

2012-07-26 Thread Ted Byers
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Florian Rüchel < florian.ruec...@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote: > On 26.07.2012 12:57, Tom Browder wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Marco Molteni (mmolteni) >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> there are two open source CA systems I am aware of, although I haven't

Re: (no subject): SSL Configuration

2012-07-25 Thread Ted Byers
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Ted Byers wrote: > > Hi All > > Hi, Ted. I, too, have been looking for something like you have. I am > in the process of creating a Perl program that may be able to help you > (for

[no subject]

2012-07-25 Thread Ted Byers
Hi All I just subscribed to this list. I have some familiarity with openssl having used it to generate self signed keys for testing secured web applications (on Apache 2.2), prior to deployment, at which time my colleagues would buy a server certificate from one of the usual CAs, such as GoDaddy.