Re: cvs commit: openssl/crypto/rsa rsa_eay.c

2000-12-19 Thread Bodo Moeller
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 12:56:21PM -0800, Geoff Thorpe wrote: [...] What if the code was structured as follows; if((rsa-_method_mod_n == NULL) [etc]) { BN_MONT_CTX *bn_mont_ctx; int bailout; if((bn_mont_ctx=BN_MONT_CTX_new()) == NULL) [do

Re: My servers don't wanna talk v2

2000-12-19 Thread Bodo Moeller
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 12:27:45PM -0500, Tom Biggs wrote: [...] Then it says "The ability to send v2 ClientHello messages will be phased out with all due haste" etc. Good thing too. But has it happened? How many browsers still do this? I guess some old ones are still doing this, I

Possible trap in rand_win.c

2000-12-19 Thread Wolfgang Marczy
Hi everybody, I just wanted to point out a trap, which I encountered. I am developing an SSL enhancement for our SMTP interface and I am using OpenSSL. I start testing under Win2000 and everything worked fine. After that I tried it out under NT4.0 (SP6) and the application hang up on

Re: cvs commit: openssl/crypto/rsa rsa_eay.c

2000-12-19 Thread Ulf Moeller
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bodo18-Dec-2000 17:36:11 Modified:.Tag: OpenSSL_0_9_6-stable CHANGES crypto/rsa Tag: OpenSSL_0_9_6-stable rsa_eay.c Log: Obtain lock CRYPTO_LOCK_RSA before creating BN_MONT_CTX structures and

RE: cvs commit: openssl/crypto/rsa rsa_eay.c

2000-12-19 Thread Reddie, Steven
The problem with only locking during the assignment is that potentially mutliple threads will be doing [extensive] work that will be thrown away when they discover that another thread beat them to it. The result could be that the lock is held for less time, but all threads do more work and

No Octect String in Private Key pkcs8 error

2000-12-19 Thread Zeo Bartoli
Hi, i am trying to parse a pkcs#5 encrypted pkcs#8 private key. it is B64 encoded, with -BEGIN ENCRYPTED PRIVATE KEY- as a name, but no header info, using the following command: openssl pkcs8 -in keyfile i am getting an error: Warning: broken key encoding: No Octet String in PrivateKey

Re: No Octect String in Private Key pkcs8 error

2000-12-19 Thread Dr S N Henson
Zeo Bartoli wrote: Hi, i am trying to parse a pkcs#5 encrypted pkcs#8 private key. it is B64 encoded, with -BEGIN ENCRYPTED PRIVATE KEY- as a name, but no header info, using the following command: openssl pkcs8 -in keyfile i am getting an error: Warning: broken key encoding:

RE: cvs commit: openssl/crypto/rsa rsa_eay.c

2000-12-19 Thread Geoff Thorpe
Hi, On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Reddie, Steven wrote: The problem with only locking during the assignment is that potentially mutliple threads will be doing [extensive] work that will be thrown away when they discover that another thread beat them to it. The result could be that the lock is held

Re: cvs commit: openssl/crypto/rsa rsa_eay.c

2000-12-19 Thread Rich Salz
Geoff touches on (actually, implies :) some good points. Again, I want to point interested folks to the following: http://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/SRC/research-reports/abstracts/src-rr-035.html Written by Andrew Birrell in 1989, 35 highly readable pages. The abstract: This paper provides

RE: cvs commit: openssl/crypto/rsa rsa_eay.c

2000-12-19 Thread Reddie, Steven
Thanks for the clarification Geoff. I see where you're coming from. In my application it is only the single instance of the application's private key that really needs protecting. The per-worker-thread public keys are never shared across threads and therefore don't need to incur the cost of

Stanford SRP

2000-12-19 Thread Sean Wieland
I'm a bit of a newbie and am trying to get some clarification and better understanding on an issue (spurred by Seifred's controversial article): How does using Stanford SRP solve (or does it?) verification, the MITM problem, and need for a CA?

Re: Stanford SRP

2000-12-19 Thread Jeffrey Altman
I'm a bit of a newbie and am trying to get some clarification and better understanding on an issue (spurred by Seifred's controversial article): How does using Stanford SRP solve (or does it?) verification, the MITM problem, and need for a CA?