Re: Documentation issue?

2013-09-29 Thread Steve Marquess
On 09/27/2013 09:38 PM, karanpopali wrote: > In the FIPS User Guide (http://www.openssl.org/docs/fips/UserGuide-2.0.pdf), > there is example to set the default DRBG type. It uses DRBG type as > NID_hmac_WithSHA256, but it should be NID_hmacWithSHA256. > > Example from UserGuide: > ./config -DOPENS

Re: Documentation patch

2004-05-06 Thread Jim Schneider
On Thursday 06 May 2004 08:45, Jim Schneider wrote: > Here's a patch for d2i_SSL_SESSION.pod, pointing out a pitfall when using > i2d_SSL_SESSION Actually, that wasn't as clear as it should be - pp isn't getting clobbered, what it points to (*pp) is getting clobbered.

Re: Documentation of SSL_get1_session()

2001-11-19 Thread Lutz Jaenicke
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 05:29:31PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In http://www.openssl.org/docs/ssl/SSL_get_session.html#, > "If the data is to be kept, SSL_get1_session() will increment the reference count >and the > session will stay in memory until explicitly freed with SSL_SESSION_free(3

Re: documentation / examples pointers?

2000-11-28 Thread Andrew W. Gray
These are no more c++ than my dog is president (although he would be better than the US's other options). These are rote C. The names should be changed to *.c within the source tree to aleviate linker errors on several platforms. -- Andrew Alan wrote: > > On 28-Nov-2000 les wrote: > > I'm not

Re: documentation / examples pointers?

2000-11-28 Thread Alan
On 28-Nov-2000 les wrote: > I'm not sure if it's in every distro but in the latest stable release in > openssl-0.9.6/demos/ssl/ there are two c+ files, cli.cpp and > serv.cpp. they should give you a good starting point... Ah, perfect. My appolagies, I'm on a debian system and completely for

Re: documentation / examples pointers?

2000-11-28 Thread jkunz
On 28 Nov, Alan wrote: > Are there any good sources of documentation on openssl? The man page gives > some information, and I've found some examples in the list archives, but not > quite what I'm looking for. Wy do you need man pages when you can read source code? ;-) > Anyway, what > I'll be d

Re: documentation / examples pointers?

2000-11-28 Thread les
I'm not sure if it's in every distro but in the latest stable release in openssl-0.9.6/demos/ssl/ there are two c+ files, cli.cpp and serv.cpp. they should give you a good starting point... At 01:55 PM 11/28/00 -0800, you wrote: >Hi there, new to the list, just wanted to *wave* :) > >Are there

Re: documentation

2000-10-26 Thread Rich Salz
Lutz is right, there's lots of bad advice lurking on the email lists; openssl-dev is better than openssl-users. On the other hand, I think it will be easier to figure out who's right and who's not. Whenever you get conflicting feedback, or from someone you don't know, mark it off as "to be confi

Re: documentation

2000-10-26 Thread john traenky
Your English is at once clear and eloquent. Allow me to parse what is available now, from old and current sources. I will send it to the dev group and to you. If acceptable; use it, display it, link to it. Let's tentatively commit to a draft user's guide by Weihnachten perhaps? Anything is be

Re: documentation

2000-10-26 Thread Lutz Jaenicke
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 09:26:36AM -0700, john traenky wrote: > Allow me to parse what is available now, from old and > current sources. I will send it to the dev group and > to you. If acceptable; use it, display it, link to > it. The OpenSSL team members will take care of creating links, make

Re: documentation

2000-10-24 Thread Lutz Jaenicke
(Just came back from hiking in the Harz mountains late yesterday evening.) On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:37:08PM -0700, john traenky wrote: > I read you too work on documentation. I would like to > join the work. How should I start? Should I gather > notes about SSLeay and OpenSSL and create a us

Re: [Documentation] some new, some changed

2000-09-20 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
From: Lutz Jaenicke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lutz.Jaenicke> I have further changed some to the "NOTES" style Lutz.Jaenicke> recommended by Richard Levitte and added Lutz.Jaenicke> SSL_CTX_set_ssl_version. Or rather, put up for discussion. The rest was my opinion. Note also that I reverted the chang

Re: Documentation bug.

1999-03-20 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > in the Makefile.ssl file, one can read: > # If you change the INSTALLTOP, make sure to also change the values > # in crypto/location.h > ... but I can't find the file crypto/location.h > The INSTALL file seems more correct and tell me to edit the crypt

Re: Documentation

1999-01-28 Thread Simon Kenyon
On 22-Jan-99 Ben Laurie wrote: > Sameer Parekh wrote: >> >> We may be misunderstanding each other. Let me outline my >> position in pieces so we can see where we agree and where we >> disagree, more specifically. >> >> a) I would like the OpenSSL project to protect the codebase from bein

Re: Documentation

1999-01-26 Thread Clifford Heath
> My discussions have had other conclusions, saying they'd be "foolish" to go > after a big company. I think they were just trying to inti- > midate you. Perhaps. Not all multi-nationals are big however - Open Software Associates in such an example. We still want to be able to use OpenSSL witho

RE: Documentation

1999-01-25 Thread salzr
> A US-related firm >will not use illegally exported cryptography code for fear of stock >market and government retribution. Okay, that makes sense to me. __ OpenSSL Project http://www.open

Re: Documentation

1999-01-25 Thread Sameer Parekh
OK, you have a good point. Let me try again. A US-related firm will not use illegally exported cryptography code for fear of stock market and government retribution. I have direct experience with large US-related firms for whom this has been an issue. > > No. Its my contention that if

RE: Documentation

1999-01-25 Thread salzr
> No. Its my contention that if a US person exports crypto code >illegally, >the US government will go after a US-related firm (i.e. a >multinational) >who uses that code internationally. This is based on statements from >government officials and discussions with export control attorneys. M

Re: Documentation

1999-01-23 Thread Ben Laurie
Sameer Parekh wrote: > > Anyone got any suggestions as to how we resolve this? > > My suggestion is that we find a US export lawyer (I know a few > =) willing to provide the group with some advice pro bono, and the > group can create guidelines based on that advice. I'll go with that. Gi

Re: Documentation

1999-01-23 Thread Rich Salz
> I suspect that there are people around who are going to disagree on what > can and can't be exported, though, and I really am not at all sure how > we can judge who is correct. You can't. That's perhaps the biggest problem with the US export regulations: all the "interesting" cases are decided

Re: Documentation

1999-01-23 Thread Sameer Parekh
[good faith] > > OK. Is this explicitly stated somewhere, or is it an interpretation of > regs? Has it been tested in court? As far as I know it has not been tested in court. The regs on export restricted web sites *do* explicitly mention good faith effort. I think that the use of good f

Re: Documentation

1999-01-23 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
ben> I suspect that there are people around who are going to disagree on what ben> can and can't be exported, though, and I really am not at all sure how ben> we can judge who is correct. For starters, we already see one camp that ben> says "any source in OpenSSL is unexportable", and another that

Re: Documentation

1999-01-23 Thread Ben Laurie
Sameer Parekh wrote: > > > b) I would like the OpenSSL project to require that all contributors > > > warrant that the code they are contributing does not violate export > > > controls. > > > > So long as _I_ don't have to collect these warranties, I can't see why > > this should be a problem. I d

RE: Documentation

1999-01-23 Thread Rich Salz
> I don't think that's quite correct. What it says is that strong > encryption code can't be exported from the US, except to Canada. > Thenationality of the person has nothing to do with it. Otherwise, it > would just be for any company in the US to ask some foreign consultant > to come to the s

Re: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Sameer Parekh
> My problem with this is that it requires the OpenSSL project to be aware > of export restrictions in other jurisdictions. If we really have to be > aware, then so be it, but I'd be _much_ happier if we could only worry > about our own. Can we not protect the codebase simply by asking that > peop

Re: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Sameer Parekh
> > Examples would be certificate extension code, message digest algorithms > or stuff related to authentication only (e.g. DSS). > > Or do you think even contributions of this sort could cause problems? I beleive that this would be a problem because that would be a US person providing

Re: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Dr Stephen Henson
Sameer Parekh wrote: > > d) The OpenSSL project should not allow US persons to contribute to > the OpenSSL source code. > This would be the easiest way to handle things but it might be regarded as over cautious. There are some non crypto areas of OpenSSL where US persons might be able to contr

RE: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
salzr> The export regulations say that US persons can't export. They salzr> are silent on what happens after the code has gone offshore. I don't think that's quite correct. What it says is that strong encryption code can't be exported from the US, except to Canada. Thenationality of the person h

Re: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Ben Laurie
Sameer Parekh wrote: > > We may be misunderstanding each other. Let me outline my > position in pieces so we can see where we agree and where we > disagree, more specifically. > > a) I would like the OpenSSL project to protect the codebase from being > polluted with export-restricted cod

Re: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Sameer Parekh
We may be misunderstanding each other. Let me outline my position in pieces so we can see where we agree and where we disagree, more specifically. a) I would like the OpenSSL project to protect the codebase from being polluted with export-restricted code, US or otherwise. b) I would lik

RE: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Sameer Parekh
At 11:08 AM 1/22/99 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> US law may not apply to you, but it applies to many of the >>people who are using OpenSSL outside the United States. > >Hmm, is it your contention that if a US person exports crypto code, >then the US govt will come after non-US citizens who u

Re: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Ben Laurie
Sameer Parekh wrote: > > > > > b) US law doesn't apply to me (at least while I'm not in US territory) > > or OpenSSL, AFAIK, regardless of the code's origin. > > > > US law may not apply to you, but it applies to many of the > people who are using OpenSSL outside the United States. If it

RE: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread salzr
> US law may not apply to you, but it applies to many of the >people who are using OpenSSL outside the United States. Hmm, is it your contention that if a US person exports crypto code, then the US govt will come after non-US citizens who uses that code? The export regulations say that US

Re: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Sameer Parekh
> > b) US law doesn't apply to me (at least while I'm not in US territory) > or OpenSSL, AFAIK, regardless of the code's origin. > US law may not apply to you, but it applies to many of the people who are using OpenSSL outside the United States. If its your intention that multinationals

Re: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Sameer Parekh
> > This is true, but who outside the US gives a damn? It's not just an issue for those outside the US. Its an issue for multinational companies that wish to ship strong cryptography products worldwide. If there's a company that does business in the US, then they won't be able to u

RE: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
From: Jon Parry-McCulloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Once the library contains crypto code of American origin, > it is > >covered by the American reexport regulations. That means > that everyone > >who distributes it internationally will violate US law. > >

Re: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: >> >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >> > Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> IMHO it's ok to not give them access to the non-documentation stuff, because >> >> this way we don't have to make sure people

Re: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Ben Laurie
Anonymous wrote: > > Ben Laurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm totally against this. We have no responsibility to enforce the USG's > > stupid export laws, and I see no reason we should take that > > responsibility on. > > Once the library contains crypto code of American origin, it is >

RE: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Jon Parry-McCulloch
>Once the library contains crypto code of American origin, it is >covered by the American reexport regulations. That means that everyone >who distributes it internationally will violate US law. This is true, but who outside the US gives a

Re: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Ben Laurie
Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: > > [...] > >> IMHO it's ok to not give them access to the non-documentation stuff, because > >> this way we don't have to make sure people don't violate their export laws. > > > I'm totally

Re: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Anonymous
Ben Laurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm totally against this. We have no responsibility to enforce the USG's > stupid export laws, and I see no reason we should take that > responsibility on. Once the library contains crypto code of American origin, it is covered by the American reexport reg

Re: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: [...] >> IMHO it's ok to not give them access to the non-documentation stuff, because >> this way we don't have to make sure people don't violate their export laws. > I'm totally against this. We have no responsibility to e

Re: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Sameer Parekh
> I don't understand why US people can't be given access to the source > tree. Well they *can* be given access to the source tree, but the idea, imo, is to make it easier to comply. That way a US person can't have a modified version of the tree and then accidentally hit commit and export

Re: Documentation

1999-01-21 Thread Ben Laurie
Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you >wrote: > > > I don't understand why US people can't be given access to the source > > tree. > > Sorry for my ignorance, but who said that we cannot give US people access to > the source tree in general? Sure, we should perhaps

Re: Documentation

1999-01-21 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > I don't understand why US people can't be given access to the source > tree. Sorry for my ignorance, but who said that we cannot give US people access to the source tree in general? Sure, we should perhaps make sure they cannot commit to the non-docu

Re: Documentation

1999-01-20 Thread Ben Laurie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I don't understand why US people can't be given access to the source > tree. I didn't understand that, either, but it didn't seem worth quibbling, because there are other reasons, anyway... > Is it because of a desire to "prove" that nobody from the US exported > so

Re: Documentation

1999-01-20 Thread Ben Laurie
sameer wrote: > > So, I'm lame, and I haven't been paying too much attention to > this list. I realized today, however, that it would be legit for me to > work on documentation for OpenSSL. So what's the status on > documentation? I'm thinking it would be appropriate to setup another > CV

RE: Documentation

1999-01-20 Thread salzr
I don't understand why US people can't be given access to the source tree. Is it because of a desire to "prove" that nobody from the US exported source code? Surely that's (a) too big a hammer (we can, e.g., con- tribute to the ASN1 engine); (b) probably not sufficient proof; and (c) starting do

Re: Documentation

1999-01-19 Thread Rodney Thayer
Good point. There are certainly several folk in the US who would/could help with that. At 01:09 AM 1/19/99 -0800, you wrote: > So, I'm lame, and I haven't been paying too much attention to >this list. I realized today, however, that it would be legit for me to >work on documentation for Op