Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Security Alert: Broken RSA Implementations

2006-09-17 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi > I just want to know in which cases we would probablely issue exponent 3 > certs. Keys are created randomly and so it might be possible to create one that has Exponent of 3 Oliver -- Diese Nachricht wurde digital unterschrieben oliwel's public key: http://www.oliwel.de/oliwel.crt Basisze

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Can you help me about Openca Project

2006-08-20 Thread Oliver Welter
Hello, there is a very good guide/documentation and how-tos on the sit http://www.openca.info/legacy/docs.html If you have any CONCRETE problems you are welcome, but this list is not capable of telling you all the necessary steps Oliver -- Diese Nachricht wurde digital unterschrieben oliwel's

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] How the SENDMAIL works

2006-08-17 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Caroll, > I'm working with OpenCA and I'm trying to know how the shipment of emails > between the nodes of the application works. For example, not yet I have > been > able to obtain the shipment of the email witch contains the CRIN of the > certificate that is generated. In addition when the CA

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] New Version

2005-12-22 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Sergei, Firefox behaves differently. It asks for a master password for the site, which is empty in our case. But when given empty password, it gives a message box which says "signature is needed". If I say "ok", it says "can not parse signature". I have similar problems with FF 1.0.7 on

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Release 0.9.2.5

2005-12-09 Thread Oliver Welter
hmm a mail from you at 9.11. comes into my mind, saying you will do that until end of november ;) Ahh ok - so I have another 11 Month left :) Sorry but some priavte things occupie my time atm more than planned Oliver -- Diese Nachricht wurde digital unterschrieben oliwel's public key: htt

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Release 0.9.2.5

2005-12-09 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi, Martin: I think you are still waiting for my patch for the checkboxes for Multi-Approval, right :) I missed it again, but think we should include this in the next release too. The patch was from one of the german universities (dont exectly remember who sent it) and it works fine for me...

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] UTF8

2005-11-09 Thread Oliver Welter
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/openca/openca-0.9.2.4.tar.gz?download Obes, Til wrote: Hi, is there a .tar.gz of the version 0.9.2.4+? I need to setup a production system now, so it would be nice to have this version. Regards Til -- Diese Nachricht wurde digital unterschrieben oliwel's

[OpenCA-Devel] Workshop Slides available online

2005-10-26 Thread Oliver Welter
Dear OpenCA Users, the slides from the latest WorkShop in Munich are now available via the OpenCA.info website: http://www.openca.info -> Docs -> Workshop One of the Use-Case Slides is missing, I hope to receive it tomorrow. Thanks to all for visiting Oliver -- Diese Nachricht wurde digital

[OpenCA-Devel] OT: Vote to Support Anti-SoftwarePatents Campain

2005-10-23 Thread Oliver Welter
Dear Users of OpenCA, first of all sorry for this slightly Off-Topic post, but I think it is important for the future of OpenSource and so even for OpenCA... There is an Internet-election for the "European of the Year" - one of the candidates is Florian Müller - the founder and main activist

[OpenCA-Devel] Re: [Openca-Users] Important: OpenCA project future, new project OpenXPKI

2005-10-20 Thread Oliver Welter
Dear OpenCA users and fellow developers, I'd like to let you know that I will join Michael in development for the new OpenXPKI project (see http://www.openxpki.org). I will extend and refactor the batch-system and started some work on token-management and key-security. As Michael and Martin I

[OpenCA-Devel] Updated: Agenda for Workshop

2005-09-28 Thread Oliver Welter
Valued OpenCA Users, I want to announce the (hopefully) stable version of the agenda for this years workshop. We have now six interessting Success-Stories in the afternoon: * Chipcard's and their Role in PKI Systems (Dr. Stephan Spitz, Giesecke & Devrient) * Using OpenCA in Business (Rober

[OpenCA-Devel] Announcement: Workshop Agenda for 17/18 October

2005-09-16 Thread Oliver Welter
Dear OpenCA users, I want to annouced the updated agenda for the upcoming workshop (17/18 October in Munich/Germany). There are still places left and the dev-team would enjoy to meet you. For an up-to-date agenda and other inquiries please visit www.openca.info/news/ws2005.html We are also s

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Foundation documents

2005-09-08 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Edward, Hi List, 1. Board members must/should be active developers. If we want that the active developers elect the board then we must define who are active developers. The reason for making board members active developers is to avoid a split between the board and the developers. The ris

[OpenCA-Devel] OpenCA Installer Script

2005-09-08 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi anyone of you ever worked on an installer script for OpenCA ? So I mean some handy cli or curses tool that wlaks through the config-xml and eases the initial setup ? Oliver -- Diese Nachricht wurde digital unterschrieben oliwel's public key: http://www.oliwel.de/oliwel.crt Basiszertifikat:

[OpenCA-Devel] Your Vote: Agenda for the Workshop

2005-09-07 Thread Oliver Welter
Dear OpenCA Users, for those who are new on the list: There will be an OpenCA User Workshop on 17/18 October in Munich/Germany - see www.openca.info/news/ws2005.html for details. I am currently composing the Agenda and I want your opinion. Current plans for Tuesday: 9:00 to 12.00: Introducti

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] License / was Foundation documents

2005-09-06 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Micha, If we use the GPL then there can be companies which change the code for their internal use. If we use GPL then it is possible too that we creates interfaces (for servers or modules) which can be used by proprietary software. So customization is still possible. Only changing and sell

[OpenCA-Devel] License / was Foundation documents

2005-09-06 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Michael, Only a notice for the people who don't read licenses, we cannot use the pure LGPL because it always talks about a library. So some more detailed discussion is required. Hmm ok after looking at gnu.org I think it is no problem just to state that we consider that "library" is equal

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Foundation documents

2005-09-06 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Sergei, Theory of controlling the complex systems differentiate two types of the system control: 1) "closed" board. Old board-members elect new board-members. 2) "open" board. ALL community elect new board-members and re-elect old board-members on a regular basis. Example of type 1 syste

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Foundation documents

2005-09-05 Thread Oliver Welter
Board: > * Micha, what criteria did you choose to elect the inital members ? I only looked around who is actually active in the core team. It is only an initial proposal. We can change without any problems. ok - I suggest to add Sergei (if he is willing to) * A "maximum" number off board

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Foundation documents

2005-09-05 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi, my comments: Board: * Micha, what criteria did you choose to elect the inital members ? * A "maximum" number off board members should be defined (10, 12 ?) * A board member is retired from the board if she/he does not participate on the votes/discussions for a given time/given count. *

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] warnExpiring improvement

2005-09-05 Thread Oliver Welter
cvs commit: sticky tag `HEAD' for file `src/common/lib/cmds/warnExpiring' is not a branch Did you use 'cvs update -r HEAD'? => use 'cvs update -A'. I really dislike this cvs stuff - it seemed to work -- Diese Nachricht wurde digital unterschrieben oliwel's public key: http://www.oliwel.de

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] warnExpiring improvement

2005-09-05 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Micha, patch was commited to the official 0.9.2 branch 1. Did you add a note to CHANGES (I see no cvsdev mail for this). No, I did not categories it as "important" enough for a change note - if you do so, we should add it 2. Can you commit it for the HEAD too please? hmmm: cvs c

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] warnExpiring improvement

2005-08-30 Thread Oliver Welter
Gsandtner Michael wrote: I have modified warnExpiring in the way below. Now for an expiring certificate always a mail is sent. If the certificate does not contain a mail address, it is looked for one in the corresponding CSR. As last try the service_mail_account is used. Would be nice, if a s

[OpenCA-Devel] Batch Process for revocation

2005-08-17 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Folks, finally I did it :) You can find a tgz containing all necessary files for a revokation-batch on http://www.ldv.ei.tum.de/media/files/homes/oliwel/batchrevocation.tgz The revokation is done in three steps - create_crr, approve_crr, revoke_cert. So you can follow the revokation on th

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Modifying a request body

2005-08-17 Thread Oliver Welter
Might it work to simply append to $obj->{REQ} and than store the update ?? No, DBI uses getItem to extract the data from the object and this uses $obj->{ITEM}. BTW why don't you want to put the approval date into the header? 1) ok 2) because it isnt in the old code and you told me to keep th

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Modifying a request body

2005-08-17 Thread Oliver Welter
$plain .= "\r\n$name=$value\r\n"; do we now use "\n" or "\r\n" ??? In the old crr code there are lot of "\n"s And it seems that my database contains only \ns too Oliver -- Diese Nachricht wurde digital unterschrieben oliwel's public key: http://www.oliwel.de/oliwel.crt Basiszertifikat: http

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Modifying a request body

2005-08-17 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Micha, We cannot do this for openca_0_9_2 so we have to rebuild the object completely. The easiest way is the following: my $plain = $obj->getItem(); $plain =~ s/[\r\n]*$//s; $plain .= "\r\n$name=$value\r\n"; $obj = OpenCA::REQ->new (... I guessed this Might it work to simply append

[OpenCA-Devel] Modifying a request body

2005-08-17 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Micha :) I am working on the crr-batch and have following problem: In first step (create_crr) I create a crr in the database like the web-frontend does: -BEGIN HEADER- TYPE = CRR SERIAL = 384 -END HEADER- SUBMIT_DATE = Tue Aug 16 13:24:52 2005 UTC REVOKE_REASON = .. No

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] How to mark a certificate "revoked"

2005-08-16 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Micha, Please don't mix 1.1 and 1.2 too in the dicsussion. You have two options: 1. Implement the batch system like the normal CRR. This means that you must call the function revoke on the CA token. Please see OpenCA::OpenSSL->revoke for more details. 2. Simply set the certificate state

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] How to mark a certificate "revoked"

2005-08-16 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Micha, 0. it depends on the version 1. openca_0_9_2 1.1. normal way CRR --> REVOKED_CERTIFICATE If the system sets the cert to revoked then we execute an OpenSSL command which changes the state in index.txt. A CRR is required for this action. 1.2. agressive mode Set cert to revoked a

[OpenCA-Devel] How to mark a certificate "revoked"

2005-08-16 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Folks, I want to implement the batch process for revoking a certifiacte. Is it ok to just set the status of the certificate to "revoked" in the certificate table ? Will the backend then realized the certificate as revoked and includes it in the CRL or must I create a CRR ?? Oliver -- Dies

[OpenCA-Devel] Philosophy: multiple checks on multiple entry points

2005-08-10 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Folks, I am currently working on the (old) batch system and encounter a design problem... I am in the "complete_csr" phase, where additional data is added prior cert issuance. I will add a certification expiry date here, means creating an attributed stored in the request header. During

[OpenCA-Devel] Test - ignore please

2005-08-09 Thread Oliver Welter
really, there is no text here :) -- Diese Nachricht wurde digital unterschrieben oliwel's public key: http://www.oliwel.de/oliwel.crt Basiszertifikat: http://www.ldv.ei.tum.de/page72 --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conferen

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] cut and paste cert req entry screen

2005-08-08 Thread Oliver Welter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone done some work on allowing a paste field in the user certificate entry screen so a user has a choice of just paste a cert request or uploading a file? We only support file upload today. I give up a copy&paste implementation after Mozilla copy&paste forces m

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] cut and paste cert req entry screen

2005-08-08 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Edward, Has anyone done some work on allowing a paste field in the user certificate entry screen so a user has a choice of just paste a cert request or uploading a file? I started a time ago but didnt finish - so if you will do this please send me the patch ;) Oliver -- Diese Nachricht w

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Probs/Bug HEAD installer

2005-08-05 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Micha, Perhaps my chown sets automatically -h and your chown does not set it by default. I will add -h to the chown command. Please try it with -h. Had the same idea :) It works Oliver -- Diese Nachricht wurde digital unterschrieben oliwel's public key: http://www.oliwel.de/oliwel.crt Basi

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Probs/Bug HEAD installer

2005-08-05 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Micha, What version of chown do you have? I have 5.2.1 on a Debian 3.1 Sarge. chown --version chown (GNU coreutils) 5.3.0 Suse 9.3 Checked it on my Server (gentoo, chown 5.2.1 and it is working here too !) -so it seems that chown has changed its behaviour... Oliver -- Diese Nachricht

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Probs/Bug HEAD installer

2005-08-05 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Micha, make[9]: Leaving directory `/home/oliwel/tmp/openca-0.9/src/common/var/crypto' /usr/bin/install -c -o root -g root -m 644 Makefile.crt /usr/local/OpenCA/var/crypto/chain/Makefile + make __install_ln_s TARGET=/usr/local/OpenCA/var/crypto/keys/cakey.pem LINK=/usr/local/OpenCA/var/cryp

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Probs/Bug HEAD installer

2005-08-05 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Micha, System: Suse 9.3 standard, $ cvs co openca-0.9 (from account) $ cd openca-0.9 $ ./configure $ make $ make install make[9]: Leaving directory `/home/oliwel/tmp/openca-0.9/src/common/var/crypto' /usr/bin/install -c -o root -g root -m 644 Makefile.crt /usr/local/OpenCA/var/crypto/c

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Probs/Bug HEAD installer

2005-08-05 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Micha, After ./configure, make the make install fails when it tries to make the symlinks for the crypto-files (cacert, cakey, crl) and the "chown" afterwards. I do this yesterday or so to support Apache's FollowSymlinksIfOwnerMatch. Do you have an error message or do you know what's wron

[OpenCA-Devel] Adding perl-module dependancy check

2005-08-05 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi All, I try installing current cvs head and are nagged by several missing perl Modules. Might it be possible to create a kind of "dependancy" checker that will check for the existance (and perhaps version) of required perl Modules and outputs a list or bash script for cpan to fetch the missi

[OpenCA-Devel] Probs/Bug HEAD installer

2005-08-05 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Micha, I am encoutering some nagging error when installing current HEAD. After ./configure, make the make install fails when it tries to make the symlinks for the crypto-files (cacert, cakey, crl) and the "chown" afterwards. Only way to make the installer work was to create OpenCA/var/cr

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Bug in OpenCA when dealing special OIDs

2005-08-03 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Johnny, hmm have you tried to verify the certifiacate with a proper configrued openssl ? It might be an issue in the windos certifiate display and not of OpenCA Another problem might be missing utf8 support on the CA maschines Can you please post the PEM code of a certificate. Oliv

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Improved SCEP interface

2005-08-02 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi, i may be able to test against a pix, but can't promise, since i'm not working there anymore, but i have still good contacts so it may be possible but i don't have access to any cisco-router equipment for testing those ios systems I think I can organize an old Cisco 2600 Series here and set

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Improved SCEP interface

2005-08-02 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi, so if I see this correctly the new scep script adds new functionality AND does everything it has done before - meens it is a drop in replacement for the old script ? Martin, you said it is "slower" - acedemic slower or practical slower :) If I assume right - my Opinion: make the new scep

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Improved SCEP interface

2005-08-01 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Martin, I have a local and substantially improved variant of scepPKIOperation that works quite well in my environment (including production use, see bug #1080695). ... Should I check in my scepPKIOperation to CVS head or keep it local? As SCEP is imho one of the most requested features

[OpenCA-Devel] OpenCA Workshop 2005

2005-08-01 Thread Oliver Welter
Dear OpenCA Users, the OpenCA Team wants to announce the this years Users-Workshop. If the majority of users has problems with the date - please let us know and we will try to move it ! Location: Techn. Universitaet Muenchen (Germany) Mon 17. October: Developer Meeting (open to whoever is in

[OpenCA-Devel] Vote: Date for Workshop October 2005

2005-07-27 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Folks, after some discussions we decided to hold the 2005 OpenCA workshop here at my University in Munich like last year. (Kontanz is a beautiful city but has no good transport conenctions...) The workshop will be devided into two days, Day One will start with a developer meeting where the

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Data Exchange Design

2005-07-11 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Guys, I am reading the comments of you both and try to understand - whats about creating another conference call (eiter by phone or in an online chat) and discuss a little bit on the topic ? I think this will bring us a little bit further in a shorter time... Oliver -- Diese Nachricht wurd

[OpenCA-Devel] Migration of docs finished

2005-07-08 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Folks, I have finished the migration of the docs to the new module, it is now organized as follows: Everything is in a new cvs module called "doc" The "guide" folder contains the compiled pdf/html/ps and chunked_html version, the sources (xml files) are all in the src directory. There is

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Q: Content of new cvs module "doc"

2005-07-04 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Micha, I would prefer to put all final docs into the doc/ area or all final docs on the website. If the final howtos are in doc/ then I would like to see the pdf/ps/html guide in the doc/ area too. One rule for all content. I have problems espacially with the chunked version in CVS becaus

[OpenCA-Devel] Q: Content of new cvs module "doc"

2005-07-03 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Guys, I have now prepared to move the documentation to the new module as announced 2 weeks ago. I am unconsious about one thing: The "Guide" consisits of the XML Sources and the compiled pdf/html/ps version. What should we put into the "doc" module ? Only the sources or the final docs als

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Dataexchange

2005-06-28 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Micha, Ok, it is really complex. so I try a rudimentary example of the internal logic. 2. export data to child 2.1. export config (e.g. dataexchange.xml) 2.2. check which objects of which datatype must be exported to the child 2.3. export these objects 2.4. write logs of this 2.5. export m

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] LDAP export with search - different dn for cert and ldap

2005-06-27 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Chrysa, we had the same need for a transformation of the dn, so we implemeted a function in LDAP.pm that translates the dn to the appropriate form if a configuration parameter LDAP_TRANSLATE_DN (ldap.conf) is set to 1. The function extracts the uid from the cert, builds the new dn and can con

[OpenCA-Devel] [Fwd: Re: Your OpenCA HowTo / License issues]

2005-06-23 Thread Oliver Welter
2005 19:45:41 -0400 From: Kevin Mitcham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Oliver Welter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GNU Free Doc License is ok with my grant constraints. Good luck with it. Kevin Oliver Welter wrote: Hi Kevin, we are currently reorganizing the

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Restructuring CVS documentation

2005-06-22 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi, 1. We have no licenese on our webpage. So it is impossible for a newby to find our license (there is only a statement that it is open source). ok we should add this - but it is not related to the topic :) 2. We have no license for our documentation. Does somebody have a good recommendat

[OpenCA-Devel] Restructuring CVS documentation

2005-06-22 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Folks, I see a little issue with our current documentation handling. We have all docs in the openca program branch. This includes our official guide as well as contributed HowTos, etc. It raises a problem to keep the guide in sync with the different branches and to spread the howtos (that

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] documentation contribution

2005-06-21 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi John, I'm awaiting the revisions for the multiple SubCA per VM set up. Do you think the documents should be further broken down? For example, the FC3 document is really only about FC3 in the beginning. My intention is - the current versions are better than we have now (in fact we have

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] documentation contribution

2005-06-20 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi John, send it per PM to me - I will have a look at it and find an appropriate place for it. Attachments are not really wanted on the list because the consume much traffic Oliver -- Diese Nachricht wurde digital unterschrieben oliwel's public key: http://www.oliwel.de/oliwel.crt Basiszert

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] LDAP export with search - different dn for cert and ldap

2005-06-15 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Peter, Can I do this transformation via the schema-descriptions in ldap.xml or have I to rewrite the ldap-export Module = AFAICS there are no DN-Transformation rules implemented, thus subjectDN equals the DN of the LDAP entry. Michael please correct me, if I am wrong here. What you need

[OpenCA-Devel] LDAP export with search - different dn for cert and ldap

2005-06-15 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Folks, I have a nice feature-request here :) I have a certificate that contains a unique ID in the DN (number of company register) I have a LDAP Server that has a completely differnt DN scheme, but the mentioned ID is a unique attribute in the LDAP tree, too. So this means I can search f

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] getDigest command problem

2005-06-10 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Johnny, there is a binary openca-digest that is used for creating the hashes. They differ in some padding issues to the openssl commands so they arent the same. Oliver -- Diese Nachricht wurde digital unterschrieben oliwel's public key: http://www.oliwel.de/oliwel.crt Basiszertifikat: htt

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Race Condition with Dataexchange

2005-06-03 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Michael, You see I like short answers but perhaps a small explanation is a good idea. OpenCA exports an object until it gets a commit from the receiving node. This means in your case that OpenCA exports every cert from the CA node until it gets a commit for the cert from the receiving RA no

[OpenCA-Devel] Race Condition with Dataexchange

2005-06-02 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Devs, there was a serious question appearing on the users list... What happens in this scenario, using networkbased dataexchange (scp): CA Op 1 issues some certs and enrolls them CA Op 2 issues some certs and enrolls them RA Op now downloads the dataexchange files I guess RA will receive th

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Token Request process

2005-05-23 Thread Oliver Welter
Hello Pierre, But I still do not understand the process the RA Operator should follow. Do you mean that once the RA operator received a token request (no crypto stuff involved) and approve it, he will start a complete process from scratch on his own requesting a Certificate from the Pub interfac

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Token Request process

2005-05-23 Thread Oliver Welter
Hello Pierre, the token request is not what you want. Token Request means, that the RA will issue a token for you, so there is no crypto-stuff behind it. It is the right way to use Basic Request with the token attached to the browser Oliver -- Diese Nachricht wurde digital unterschrieben oli

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] OpenCA as a Web service

2005-05-18 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Bahaa, Can anyone point me to how to write enable OpenCA as a web service and how to work with access controls of OpenCA. I would like to be able to submit a pcks10 request and receive the signed certificate via web service. Thanks in Advance There are two (three) ways for this :) 1) You can pa

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] New Webfrontend: design considerations

2005-05-11 Thread Oliver Welter
I am way behind schedule with a web frontend prototype for the new CVS version of OpenCA, but this also gave me time to think about the architecture. I have summarized my thoughts on the following Wiki page, I'd appreciate comments on my ideas! http://openca.cynops.de/openca/WebFrontend First Impre

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Automatic key update

2005-05-09 Thread Oliver Welter
Is there a protocol for updating key from a PKI ? I have read RFC 2510 in which PKI messages format is done, but there is no description of exchanges between the EE and a RA. I am looking for exchange like it can exist for SMTP or POP3 for example. Is there a such describe protocol for PKI solution

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Testmail - please ignore

2005-04-26 Thread Oliver Welter
If it helps somebody - I got it ;) Oliver -- Diese Nachricht wurde digital unterschrieben oliwel's public key: http://www.oliwel.de/oliwel.crt Basiszertifikat: http://www.ldv.ei.tum.de/page72 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Snapshots

2005-04-11 Thread Oliver Welter
I would prefer tagging cvs Using a cvs is for "advanced" users only, dl'ing a snap is usually done even by more "unexperienced" users...and I dont want to have all these guys on the list ,) Oliver -- Diese Nachricht wurde digital unterschrieben oliwel's public key: http://www.oliwel.de/oliwe

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Guru Question: Order of Attributes returned by Openssl

2005-04-05 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Ives, Hi Til, together with Michael I tracked it down - the order is mixed up already by the OpenSSL interface... this means? ;) or at witch place... a pointer would be nice - thx The Mailaddresses are fetched via "getCertAttribute" in X509.pm which calls the crypto-backend, in my case OpenSSL.

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Guru Question: Order of Attributes returned by Openssl

2005-04-05 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Til, together with Michael I tracked it down - the order is mixed up already by the OpenSSL interface... For my part I will do a loop through all addresses and take one that matces a given regexp... This is not a good solution but will solve my urgent needs Oliver -- Diese Nachricht wurd

[OpenCA-Devel] Guru Question: Order of Attributes returned by Openssl

2005-04-05 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Guru's, I have a qustion on OpenSSL Interface... My Problem: A certificate contains multiple eMail Adresses as "Subject Alternative Name". The order of these entries is implrtant for me, as the first address (the address added first during creation) is always the address I want to use for LDA

[OpenCA-Devel] Problems with stop script

2005-03-31 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Folks, anoying problem During setup for a new installation I ran into one really stupid problem... I had an error in my Database config section, so the startup threw an error. So I fixed this, ran configure_etc and started openca agaian, and again, and again After some subsequent trie

[OpenCA-Devel] Batchprocessor dependency system

2005-03-31 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi PPl, I am currently working on the batch processor for revoking and renewal. I have situations were a user re-request a new certificate with changed data during the lifetime. So I must revoke the "old" certificate when I issue an new one. From the "usability" point of view, I want to revoke t

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Signatures on objects

2005-02-25 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Michael, Hi Martin, I basically agree on this thing - and I must say I cannot really follow your both other ideasI am not this deep in the project and screw up my mind when trying to mnake a big picture I would prefer talking on a phone conference about this, think this will make som

[OpenCA-Devel] Cisco SCEP stuff

2005-02-22 Thread Oliver Welter
Hello together, attached you find a modified version of Martins Scep script. Modifications where done in "sub scepStoreRequest" around line 440 for serving Cisco SCEP requests. The Script parses the DN from the request, reorders the elements and exrtacts IP and FQDN and puts it in the Subject Al

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] openca-configure produces no output

2005-02-21 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Alexei, open the configure_etc skript and look if you have the correct driectory with your files in the "DIReCTORY" list at the top of the script. You can try to add "/bin/sh -x" at the top - this will write the execeute commands on STDOUT Oliver -- Diese Nachricht wurde digital unterschrieb

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Rewriting SCEP CSR

2005-02-21 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Ives, And we must set two values in the Subject Alternativ Name... its not working without? i didn't check it yet... but i thought since it took me soo long to realize that cisco likes it this way at the pix, i did this with the routers but i give it a try later - or did u already? We had not ti

[OpenCA-Devel] Rewriting SCEP CSR

2005-02-21 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Ppl, I have a little problem - where are setting up an OpenCA for usage with cisco devices via SCEP. We have to set some fields on the request manually and want to automate this. The modificatiosn are: Setting unstructuredName=ipsec-test.test.corp+unstructuredAddress=1.1.1.1,OU=... to unstru

[OpenCA-Devel] Default ACL rules for SCEP

2005-02-21 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Folks, I am playing with SCEP currently and have a question/suggestion for the default configuration... In "access_control/scep.xml" the channel is set to "http" correctly, but "map_role" is set to yes... As scep in general does not use any authentication, role mapping is not possible and l

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Design: keeping certificate status in database

2005-02-17 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Martin, I thought about the problems before posting - but I think that the status flag in the DB can not be used for such a time-critical or high-security application - you have a similar problem with just the "runtime" of a revoke action. I think that an application should verifiy the times

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Design: keeping certificate status in database

2005-02-17 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Martin, I agree on the problem but not totally on the suggeeste solution :) I'd like to propose the following change for the next release: - for each certificate the notBefore and notAfter dates are stored in the database - the following certificate status are kept in the database: - ISSUED

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Menugeneration

2005-02-04 Thread Oliver Welter
hi Maritn, Me too, as I think I was one of the guys who made this suggestion and I did some similar stuff in the past - I can contribute here or take the lead in that direction. As semester is over in 2 weeks my schedule is much more relaxed now. I have started to give an experimental new frontend

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Menugeneration

2005-02-04 Thread Oliver Welter
hi Micha, Hi Chris, I say go for it ! Me too, as I think I was one of the guys who made this suggestion and I did some similar stuff in the past - I can contribute here or take the lead in that direction. As semester is over in 2 weeks my schedule is much more relaxed now. Oliver -- Diese Nachr

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] OpenSSL index recreation error?

2005-02-02 Thread Oliver Welter
in our test system I used the "Rebuild OpenSSL database and next serial number" function to recreate the index.txt file. After this was successfully performed, I noticed that the revocation date in index.txt was destroyed, leading to errorneous CRLs: Revoked Certificates: Serial Number: 03

[OpenCA-Devel] OpenCA Backup / Redundancy

2004-12-29 Thread Oliver Welter
hi Folks, I am currently working on a "High Availability Installation" of OpenCA... Scenario: Two identical Server, both running Linux and OpenCA with identical config on both. MySQL Server with native replication Is it necessary to keep the disks in sync to run a failover scenario ? The curr

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] symmetric keylength

2004-12-24 Thread Oliver Welter
guide but it does not say much about this error. How can you export the SSLEnv in apache 2.0.X? Best regards, Bahaa Al-amood -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Oliver Welter Sent: Friday, December 24, 2004 9:12 AM To: openca-devel@lists.sourc

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] symmetric keylength

2004-12-24 Thread Oliver Welter
Alamood, Bahaaldin wrote: Hi all, I just set up openca-0.9.2.1 on a test machine for the second time but this time when I go to access the RA pages I get this error "General Error Aborting connection - you are using a too short symmetric keylength()" I have never seen it doing this before. I have

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Generating a PIN

2004-12-24 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Thameur, you can use the "openca-*" utils in the "bin/" folder for this purpose - these tools can be compiled without the other openca-stuff. AFAIK it is not possible to genereate the PIN directly with openssl because it uses some methids that are not available through the commadn line inter

[OpenCA-Devel] New Section on Webseite ?

2004-12-16 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Folks, the new Special Edition of the german "Linux Magazin" is on sale now containing the article written by Michael and me. I try to get a PDF Version of it that we can publish on the website. How do you think about announcing the article in the webpage and later on perhabps posting it ? I

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] i18n change

2004-12-07 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Guys, Today $self->setError (1234567, $self->{gettext} ("File __var__ is missing.", "__var__" $var)); Proposal $self->setError (OPENCA_I18N_MODULE_AC_INIT_NO_FILE); Question: Whats about the "variable extension" like seen above ? Have you omitted this for better reading ? -

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] scons

2004-12-06 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Ives, what do you think about changing from automake and conf to scons? maybe for the next release or later? http://www.scons.org/ "Configuration files are Python scripts--use the power of a real programming language to solve build problems." I dont like phyton and it is not installed on m

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] OpenCA API

2004-12-02 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Folks, some really nice ideas - to most of them I agree, to some not - I will see to find the time to give a more detailed info on the weekend but I am a little bit busy at the moment :) One quick point: I disagree with the workflow module - I think we should keep the statemaschine modell an

[OpenCA-Devel] RBAC Owner

2004-11-20 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi All, can anybody enlight me what the "owner" tags in the RBAC Configuration are used for ?? Is it possible to limit access to objects based on properties of the objects ?? Oliver -- Diese Nachricht wurde digital unterschrieben oliwel's public key: http://www.oliwel.de/oliwel.crt Basiszertifi

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Signature handling

2004-11-19 Thread Oliver Welter
hi Dalini, yes your "edit" state would ne quite the same than my suggestion - I addresses this to martin cause it ssemed to me that he missed the point... usaly the request object would get signed with its NEW state either - approved or rejected - so it can't be changed and its clear what to do

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Signature handling

2004-11-19 Thread Oliver Welter
dalini wrote: Martin Bartosch wrote: admin 1 requests operation X on object A -> results in an entry in edit state Now as long as the request is neither approved nor revoked it is not possible (it SHOULD not be possible) to add a new (conflicting) change request for the same object. That would mean

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Automated Processing Questions

2004-11-19 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi dalini, oh, just as we talking about database desing in relation to sign actions and state changes: do we have an option to create request objects, which just have a dn and a pwd (pre shared secret) stored? (which also may have been signed, means pre approved by 1:n operators?) this is nec

Re: [OpenCA-Devel] Java keystore download, random pin generation

2004-11-18 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Martin, - currently it is only possible to get the own CA certificate from the DB, isn't it? The var/crypto/chain directory may contain the required certificates, but it is not really enforced, right? Do you think it is sensible to construct the keystores based on the CA certs that are a

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