Re: [cryptography] anyone got a how not to use OpenSSL list?

2012-10-25 Thread Aaron Grattafiori
While more proper uses of OpenSSL vs improper, participates of the discussion might enjoy the following whitepaper and tool release by iSEC Partners and an Academic look at popular non-browser SSL failures (bottom):

Re: [cryptography] anyone got a how not to use OpenSSL list?

2012-10-24 Thread Patrick Mylund Nielsen
Related: https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/pubs/abstracts/ssl-client-bugs.html http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:26 PM, travis+ml-rbcryptogra...@subspacefield.org wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 08:56:29PM +0100, Patrick Mylund Nielsen wrote: One

Re: [cryptography] anyone got a how not to use OpenSSL list?

2012-10-24 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 1:34 PM, travis+ml-rbcryptogra...@subspacefield.org wrote: I want to find common improper usages of OpenSSL library for SSL/TLS. Can be reverse-engineered from a how to properly use OpenSSL FAQ, probably, but would prefer information to the first point rather than its

Re: [cryptography] anyone got a how not to use OpenSSL list?

2012-10-16 Thread Florian Weimer
* Ryan Sleevi: Here's a quick list off the top of my head from having poked around various languages' bindings (Python, Perl, PHP, etc), from having seen various rebranded OpenSSL-using products, and from various I just want to do HTTPS Here's another one I came across: do not use the

Re: [cryptography] anyone got a how not to use OpenSSL list?

2012-10-13 Thread Peter Gutmann
Patrick Mylund Nielsen cryptogra...@patrickmylund.com writes: Guess what his optimization was. Yup, he tried every combination of things in SSLCipherSuite and simply chose the one with the lest CPU... I've run into similar things, I've had (potential) users of my software reject it because it

[cryptography] anyone got a how not to use OpenSSL list?

2012-10-10 Thread travis+ml-rbcryptography
I want to find common improper usages of OpenSSL library for SSL/TLS. Can be reverse-engineered from a how to properly use OpenSSL FAQ, probably, but would prefer information to the first point rather than its complement. -- http://www.subspacefield.org/~travis/ Any sufficiently advanced magic

Re: [cryptography] anyone got a how not to use OpenSSL list?

2012-10-10 Thread Ben Laurie
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 6:34 PM, travis+ml-rbcryptogra...@subspacefield.org wrote: I want to find common improper usages of OpenSSL library for SSL/TLS. Can be reverse-engineered from a how to properly use OpenSSL FAQ, probably, but would prefer information to the first point rather than its

Re: [cryptography] anyone got a how not to use OpenSSL list?

2012-10-10 Thread Patrick Mylund Nielsen
Hah. I'm surprised the term security theater wasn't coined earlier! On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Warren Kumari war...@kumari.net wrote: On Oct 10, 2012, at 3:56 PM, Patrick Mylund Nielsen cryptogra...@patrickmylund.com wrote: One thing that I've sadly seen more times than I can shake a