RE: How good a random source is Crypto API?

2005-04-04 Thread Steven Reddie
Thanks, I'd missed/forgotten that comment. I've also seen crashes in single-threaded applications due to RAND_poll. One that immediately comes to mind is when the performance counters in the registry are accessed which cause hook DLLS to be loaded and called. I've come across a machine that

Re: How good a random source is Crypto API?

2005-04-04 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 4 Apr 2005 16:53:21 +1000, Steven Reddie [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: smr Moving such functionality out-of-process would improve stability, smr and this is obviously where prngd/egd comes in, but if these are smr seen as useful for more secure applications then it

RE: How good a random source is Crypto API?

2005-04-04 Thread Steven Reddie
Hi Richard, I'm reasonably familiar with that code, having spent some time debugging it over the years. I've experienced the thread-safety issues (eg. walking the heap snapshot while threads are simultaneously being created/destroyed), slow performance with the same section of code, and the

openssl 20050404 snapshots

2005-04-04 Thread The Doctor
MAtes, I got a 0 block error. Please fix. -- Member - Liberal International This is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ici [EMAIL PROTECTED] God Queen and country! Beware Anti-Christ rising! UK as 5 May 2005 approaches, vote LDem!! __

Re: [CVS] OpenSSL: OpenSSL_0_9_7-stable: openssl/ssl/ ssl_rsa.c

2005-04-04 Thread Ben Laurie
Nils Larsch wrote: OpenSSL CVS Repository http://cvs.openssl.org/ Server: cvs.openssl.org Name: Nils Larsch Root: /e/openssl/cvs Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Module: openssl

Re: [CVS] OpenSSL: OpenSSL_0_9_7-stable: openssl/ssl/ ssl_rsa.c

2005-04-04 Thread Ben Laurie
Nils Larsch wrote: OpenSSL CVS Repository http://cvs.openssl.org/ Server: cvs.openssl.org Name: Nils Larsch Root: /e/openssl/cvs Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Module: openssl

Re: [CVS] OpenSSL: OpenSSL_0_9_7-stable: openssl/ssl/ ssl_rsa.c

2005-04-04 Thread Nils Larsch
Ben Laurie wrote: Nils Larsch wrote: OpenSSL CVS Repository http://cvs.openssl.org/ Server: cvs.openssl.org Name: Nils Larsch Root: /e/openssl/cvs Email: [EMAIL

[openssl.org #658] Bug in ssl_asn1.s/d2i_SSL_SESSION()

2005-04-04 Thread Nils Larsch via RT
should be fixed in a recent snapshot Thanks, Nils __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager

[openssl.org #860] Coding problem in ssl_rsa.c

2005-04-04 Thread Nils Larsch via RT
fixed, try a recent snapshot Thanks, Nils __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager

[openssl.org #947] Patch, I suppose

2005-04-04 Thread Nils Larsch via RT
Ben recently committed some changes in this direction. Could you please check if the problem still exists with a recent snapshot. Cheers, Nils __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development

[openssl.org #831] -issuerhash

2005-04-04 Thread Nils Larsch via RT
this feature is implemented in 0.9.8-dev (as -issuer_hash) which will hopefully released in a not so far away future ;-) I therefore resolve this ticket. Cheers, Nils __ OpenSSL Project

RC4 optimize for em64t

2005-04-04 Thread Zou, Nanhai
rc4-x86_84.optimized.s Hi, Current OpenSSL (0.9.8-dev) rc4speed throughput on a Nocona (Em64t, b4bit) 3.6GHz is 272Mb/s, while this version of RC4 code can archive 536Mb/s in RC4Speed. Would you please review it? Thanks Zou Nan hai rc4-x86_84.optimized.s Description: