Re: openssl gendsa -rand confusion

2000-04-13 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
djm Data greater than md_rand.c's STATE_SIZE is going to be wasted. Really? I'm may be blind, but it very much looks to me like the state index gets wrapped backed to 0 when it reaches STATE_SIZE, and that whatever values are written in the current element of state is XORed on the previous

Re: openssl gendsa -rand confusion

2000-04-13 Thread Bodo Moeller
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 07:40:05AM +1000, Damien Miller wrote: On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote: This violates the "principle of least suprise". The -rand parameter should either stop reading after a sufficient number of bytes or be properly documented in gendsa.1.

Re: RSA_generate_key() without /dev/urandom

2000-04-13 Thread Nicolas Roumiantzeff
Bodo Moeler wrote about the truerand library (at ftp://ftp.research.att.com/dist/mab/librand.shar): It's not that portable (for getting CFS to work, I had to replace the roulette() function by an implementation that simply reads from /dev/urandom -- for reasons I did not investige further,

Re: openssl gendsa -rand confusion

2000-04-13 Thread Damien Miller
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote: djm Data greater than md_rand.c's STATE_SIZE is going to be wasted. Really? I'm may be blind, but it very much looks to me like the state index gets wrapped backed to 0 when it reaches STATE_SIZE, and that whatever values are

Callback/timing bug on NT?

2000-04-13 Thread Ng Pheng Siong
Hello, I seem to be running into a callback/timing-related bug. I am integrating M2Crypto with OpenSSL 0.9.5a. M2Crypto is a Python interface to OpenSSL; it allows one to write SSL clients and servers, including OpenSSL callbacks, in Python. Presently, M2Crypto supports

Test Errors

2000-04-13 Thread Marchand, Tom
I am receiving the following errors while performing a make test on AIX 4.2.1.0: testing... Target "all" is up to date. ./destest Doing cbcm des_ede3_cbcm_encrypt decrypt error 37 36 35 34 33 32 31 20 4e 6f 77 20 69 73 20 74 68 65 20 74 69 6d 65 20 66 6f 72 20 00 63 e6 4f da 51 bb a4

How add add new fields into certificate request?

2000-04-13 Thread yanfeng-zhang
Is that possible to add new fields, for example telephone number and credit card number, into a certificate request? How can I do it? Should I use new object id section? or just add them into "distinguished_name" section? or add them to attributes section? Yes, I am confused about those

*** [test_bn] Error 2

2000-04-13 Thread Marie Osowski
Have similar problem to that logged: "2000-03-21""test bn not completed successfully""openssl-d" "ioannou" The user changed the makefile to circumvent the problem. I am not that well versed in Makefiles. Would anyone mind sending me a copy of the changes to the Makefile that corrected

How to create an user certificate and import it to Outlook Express

2000-04-13 Thread km_gym
Sir: Will you do me a favor and give an answer for "How to create an user certificate and import it to Outlook Express" ? Thanks ! gym 2000-4-14