Re: non-blocking problem

2010-05-04 Thread piper.guy1
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010, piper.guy1 wrote: > >> Hi again, >> >> I'm trying to follow the instructions in the OpenSSL reference book, >> and their example code from their site for setting a socket to >

non-blocking problem

2010-04-27 Thread piper.guy1
Hi again, I'm trying to follow the instructions in the OpenSSL reference book, and their example code from their site for setting a socket to 'non-blocking'. Before I made any changes, I was working with good code that was making secure connections with no problems. Essentially: bio = BIO_new_

Re: Verisign client requirements

2010-04-27 Thread piper.guy1
Thanks for your help David. Regards, /carl h. On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 9:54 PM, David Schwartz wrote: > > Piper Guy1 wrote: > >> > This is precisely what a browser does. Again, using the >> > "https://www.amazon.com"; example, OpenSSL takes care of getting the >> > certificate from the server, ma

Re: Verisign client requirements

2010-04-27 Thread piper.guy1
dents: you just need to > trust the few organizations that issue all the certificates you will > encounter. > > The simple (non-self-signed) example involves a root certificate and a > server certificate. But, there can be many "intermediate" certificates > inbetween. SSL

Re: Verisign client requirements

2010-04-19 Thread piper.guy1
xpertise to challenge the server guys so it's basically status quo, which my gut tells me is not very strong. thanx /carl h. On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 5:04 PM, David Schwartz wrote: > > Piper.guy1 wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Please understand I'm a newbie to securi

Verisign client requirements

2010-04-05 Thread piper.guy1
Hi, Please understand I'm a newbie to security if my question sounds rather elementary. The embedded product I'm working on requires a secure connection to our server that uses a Verisign certificate to authenticate. I've been porting the OpenSSL examples from the O'Reilly publication so far and

wget passphrase

2010-03-31 Thread piper.guy1
Sorry if this has been ask before. I need to use 'wget' to do a secure file download. It works great at the command line. Unfortunately wget asks for the PEM passphrase. However this will eventually be part of an embedded application so the passphrase prompt can't happen. 1. Can you create PEM's