Re: OpenSSL FIPS 140-2 validation

2008-11-19 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008, Brad House wrote: I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to FIPS, is this a limitation of the FIPS requirements itself or a limitation of OpenSSL's FIPS validation? It is a FIPS requirement. Any idea how many root CAs use MD2WithRSAEncryption or any way to work around

Re: [PATCH] keep CHIL engine from breaking in non-threaded situations [openssl.org #1736]

2008-11-19 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On Tuesday 18 November 2008 19:22:55 Sander Temme wrote: On Nov 11, 2008, at 12:28 AM, Sander Temme wrote: On Nov 2, 2008, at 9:19 AM, Sander Temme wrote: The following compiles and tests cleanly on trunk and on the latest snapshot of 0.9.8-stable (with offset 1 in e_chil.c). Also

[openssl.org #1789] BUG: openssl verify command does not report signature error if there are other errors

2008-11-19 Thread Christopher Williams via RT
I've been testing the openssl verify functionality. I have the following chain: server certificate VeriSign Class 3 Extended Validation SSL CA VeriSign Class 3 Public Primary CA - G5 The root CA and intermediate CA certificates are in my trusted CA

[openssl.org #1789] BUG: openssl verify command does not report signature error if there are other errors

2008-11-19 Thread Stephen Henson via RT
If the certificate chain cannot be built to a trusted root then none of the keys can be trusted either. An attacker could build a totally bogus chain using their own keys and valid signatures... but it would not be valid because it would not chain to a trusted root. Signature verification can be

Re: Problems in OCSP_basic_sign() - not thread safe ?

2008-11-19 Thread Max Pala
Hi guys, I finally found the problem... it was simply that I forgot to call the function to initialize support for threads in the library.. now the code runs smooth. Thanks to those who helped me... :D Later, Max Massimiliano Pala wrote: Hi all, I am working on a multi threaded OCSP server

Re: OpenSSL FIPS 140-2 validation

2008-11-19 Thread joshi chandran
Hi , I have a different requirement . I want to release openssl 0.9.8j has normal openssl release . i donot want to release fips capable openssl . if i remove the fips option in configure will it generate the normal openssl (with out fips capabability) including all the functionality that are in