Re: MITM in the wild

2008-10-18 Thread Steffen Schulz
On 081018 at 20:30, Nelson B Bolyard wrote: > FF3 had utterly failed to convey to her any understanding that she was > under attack. The mere fact that the browser provided a way to override > the error was enough to convince her that the errors were not serious. I find it amazing that someone sh

Re: NSS implementation of TLS-PSK/ RFC 4279

2008-10-17 Thread Steffen Schulz
On 081014 at 23:45, Ian G wrote: > > No. There are no plans to include any PSK cipher suites in NSS. > > Because of the enormous potential for PSK cipher suites to be misused by > > application developers, there is strong resistance to incorporating them > > into NSS. > > Nelson, I'm fascinated b

Re: Comment on tls-srp enhancement?

2007-12-16 Thread Steffen Schulz
On 071216 at 01:50, Nelson Bolyard wrote: > Steffen Schulz wrote, On 2007-12-12 10:34: > > On 071209 at 03:55, Nelson Bolyard wrote: > >> If FF doesn't have any built-in UI for SRP, I think I have a harder time > >> justifying the inclusion of SRP in NSS. I think i

Re: Comment on tls-srp enhancement?

2007-12-13 Thread Steffen Schulz
Hi, On 071213 at 16:30, Michael Ströder wrote: > Steffen Schulz wrote: > > SRP is a great protocol also for authentication against your email > > provider or WLAN[1] access point. > > [..] > > That said, I agree that web-authentication is the major use case for > &g

Re: Comment on tls-srp enhancement?

2007-12-12 Thread Steffen Schulz
On 071209 at 03:55, Nelson Bolyard wrote: > If FF doesn't have any built-in UI for SRP, I think I have a harder time > justifying the inclusion of SRP in NSS. I think it's a feature that > would be included exclusively for use in the browser, so if the browser > can't use it "out of the box", ther

Re: Comment on tls-srp enhancement?

2007-12-07 Thread Steffen Schulz
On 071208 at 01:25, Nelson Bolyard wrote: > In your case, you have attached a patch, and (I gather) you're seeking > review of the patch (a necessary precursor to commitment). Bugzilla has > a way to mark a patch with a review request. Doing so causes that > patch to appear on some reviewers queu

Comment on tls-srp enhancement?

2007-12-07 Thread Steffen Schulz
Hi all, I was hoping for some feedback on bug 405155, which adds support for TLS-SRP. Are the core devs that busy right now? (I also thought subscribing to this list would enable me to follow the current development around nss/psm. Do you just use bugzilla?) regards, steffen -- Bildet Olsenb

Re: Need NSS test help from an Intel-Mac user/developer

2007-10-01 Thread Steffen Schulz
Hi, I suppose you were talking about OSX on Intel/Mac. I compiled nss 3.11.4 from cvs, output is attached. /steffen PS: The other mail I sent today can be safely ignored, picked the wrong one out of the postponed messages queue.. On 071001 at 04:35, Nelson B wrote: >https://bugzilla.

Re: Question for Nelson Bolyard

2007-10-01 Thread Steffen Schulz
On 070825 at 21:05, Jeremy Morton wrote: > So just to confirm, you're saying that there is no difference in > security between submitting a username/password via HTTP and via HTTPS > with a self-signed SSL cert? That's untrue of course, because an active attack is more difficult than a passive o

Re: Testing DSA ciphersuites..

2007-08-26 Thread Steffen Schulz
On 070825 at 02:10, Nelson B wrote: > IIRC, the problem is not DSA but rather DHE. NSS does not presently > support any DHE cipher suites on the server side, and it so happens > that all the DSA cipher suites are also DHE cipher suites. IIRC, > the missing code is not for DSA but for DHE. The is

Re: Testing DSA ciphersuites..

2007-08-24 Thread Steffen Schulz
On 070824 at 03:20, Wan-Teh Chang wrote: > > Is usage of DSA-suites disencouraged? How can I test them? > No, the use of DSA ciphersuites is not discouraged. But we haven't > implemented DSA ciphersuites on the server side. They are only > implemented on the client side. I believe this is the pr

Re: Testing DSA ciphersuites..

2007-08-24 Thread Steffen Schulz
On 070824 at 16:47, Wan-Teh Chang wrote: > On 8/24/07, Steffen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, most of the missing code is in the SSL library. There is a > work-in-progress patch in the bug report for this feature: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102794

Re: Testing DSA ciphersuites..

2007-08-24 Thread Steffen Schulz
On 070824 at 03:20, Wan-Teh Chang wrote: > > Is usage of DSA-suites disencouraged? How can I test them? > No, the use of DSA ciphersuites is not discouraged. But we haven't > implemented DSA ciphersuites on the server side. They are only > implemented on the client side. I believe this is the pr

Testing DSA ciphersuites..

2007-08-23 Thread Steffen Schulz
Hi, I want to test DSA ciphersuites, but 'server' and 'selfsrv' seem to be unable to handle them. I changed the source to enable some TLS-DSA suites but it seems the ssl library is not being supplied with a valid certificate. I created the dsa certificates with: openssl pkcs12 -export -in dsa

TLS SRP extension

2007-06-04 Thread Steffen Schulz
Hi all, I'm currently implementing draft-ietf-tls-srp-13 in NSS/SSL. I did not find suitable test programs. I mean something like "openssl" or "gnutls-cli". It seems I would have to dig through the test shell scripts and programming examples to find or program such a tool and make it find the n

Re: Applicability of SSL / use-cases

2007-02-06 Thread Steffen Schulz
On 070204 at 16:00, Ben Bucksch wrote: > In private discussion, Eddy of StartCom suggested SSL CA certs for > > * internal sites (company webmail/IMAP, VPN etc.) > * private discussion (blogs, forums, chat) > * generally everything where you supply a login/password. > > I think other soluti