Re: Client certificate question

1999-09-02 Thread Manuel Mollar Villanueva
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this. If it is could someone kindly redirect me to the correct place? I am new to this... I am working on a client side application that needs to have a SSL layer to connect to a server. I need to

Re: Revised OpenSSL hardware support

1999-09-02 Thread Per Nilsson
In my opinion a threaded model has three advantages: - Takes advantage of multiple processors if you're doing, say, software RSA. - Often simplifies the code. - Works, with small overhead, for hardware accelerated RSA as well. (I guess this is exactly what you are saying, Bodo. Just wanted to

Re: Cert verification problems.

1999-09-02 Thread Dr Stephen Henson
Rich Salz wrote: Sorry, you're right. The cert-sign is okay, but the crl-sign cert which is signed by cert-sign fails to verify the sig. We'd normally suspect the CA that generated the certs, but (1) it verifies when we use our hardware crypto; (2) it's not our CA. :) So, we do believe

Re: Adding a -verify flag to the crl command

1999-09-02 Thread Dr Stephen Henson
Rich Salz wrote: Has anyone added a "-verify XXX" flag to the CRL command? The XXX would be the file containing the CA cert. Doesn't look to hard, given X509_PUBKEY_get and X509_CRL_verify Good idea. It can check the issuer name of the supplied certificate too. I'll add it when I have

Re: Cert verification problems.

1999-09-02 Thread Dr Stephen Henson
Rich Salz wrote: Sorry, you're right. The cert-sign is okay, but the crl-sign cert which is signed by cert-sign fails to verify the sig. We'd normally suspect the CA that generated the certs, but (1) it verifies when we use our hardware crypto; (2) it's not our CA. :) So, we do believe

RE: Cert verification problems.

1999-09-02 Thread Salz, Rich
It seems to be that this behaviour is implied by the extensions: that is both certificates have the same subject and issuer names and they match each other: crl-sign however doesn't have permission to sign certificates but cert-sign does. Presumably this is intended to mean that you use the

Macintosh Port diffs

1999-09-02 Thread Roy Wood
Okay, as a first step toward getting my Mac changes into OpenSSL, here are the diffs I've made wrt to clean 0.9.4 install. Next, I'm packaging up some notes and code for Mac people who are interested in using OpenSSL. Is there an FTP drop box I can place these? It'll be a little large for

Re: Client certificate question

1999-09-02 Thread Len
Hi, I do not understand very well your question. To generate a certificate request (the client) use: openssl req -newkey rsa:1024 To sign it and gen the cert. use: openssl ca . I guess I don't understand this very well, sorry... On the client side ssl do I need a key pair for a

Re: Cert verification problems.

1999-09-02 Thread Dr Stephen Henson
Salz, Rich wrote: A bit odd but it makes sense I suppose: I wouldn't like to guess as to which software will handle this properly though. Yes, that is exactly what is going on. It is *VERY* odd -- I'd argue it's broken. I'd argue its broken too. At the very least I'd expect some other

Re: Client certificate question

1999-09-02 Thread Dr Stephen Henson
Len wrote: Hi, I do not understand very well your question. To generate a certificate request (the client) use: openssl req -newkey rsa:1024 To sign it and gen the cert. use: openssl ca . I guess I don't understand this very well, sorry... On the client side ssl do I

RE: Cert verification problems.

1999-09-02 Thread Salz, Rich
However when a CA rekeys you'd expect some indicator of the new key used, not just: "try everything you've got and see what happens". You're more optimistic than I. __ OpenSSL Project

Damn apps!

1999-09-02 Thread Lennart Bång
Hi, Writing to get your input on a problem I just ran into. I am in the process of porting all the apps/*.c to target in order to get the whole 'openssl' program running on OSE RTOS on a powerpc. The problem is that the programs use global variables and does not bother to clear them and the

Re: Client certificate question

1999-09-02 Thread Len
Thanks, that helps. len Len wrote: Hi, I do not understand very well your question. To generate a certificate request (the client) use: openssl req -newkey rsa:1024 To sign it and gen the cert. use: openssl ca . I guess I don't understand this very well,

Re: Revised OpenSSL hardware support

1999-09-02 Thread Chris Zimman
On 09/02/99, Per Nilsson said: In my opinion a threaded model has three advantages: - Takes advantage of multiple processors if you're doing, say, software RSA. - Often simplifies the code. - Works, with small overhead, for hardware accelerated RSA as well. The use of hardware largely preempts

Re: Revised OpenSSL hardware support

1999-09-02 Thread Chris Zimman
On 09/01/99, Bodo Moeller said: One reason for doing things that way (threads instead of multiplexing in a single thread) is that public-key operations in software introduce quite a bit of latency, and you don't want all other connections to stall when there's a handshake at one of them. So

Re: problem with make install step

1999-09-02 Thread Bodo Moeller
Mark Carey-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm currently trying to build an openssl 0.9.4 distribution which fails on the make install step after the previous steps all work correctly. ./configure --prefix=/citec/openssl-0.9.4 ./make ./make test ./make install make install output: [...] ***

Re: Revised OpenSSL hardware support

1999-09-02 Thread Bodo Moeller
Chris Zimman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bodo Moeller: [...] maybe in an ideal world it'd be possible to request that slow software bignum operations be "non-blocking" too in the sense that after doing some of their work they'd return control to the top-level, which then can handle other threads and

Re: Damn apps!

1999-09-02 Thread Bodo Moeller
Lennart Bång [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am in the process of porting all the apps/*.c to target in order to get the whole 'openssl' program running on OSE RTOS on a powerpc. The problem is that the programs use global variables and does not bother to clear them and the simple shell I am using

RE: Revised OpenSSL hardware support

1999-09-02 Thread Ron Ramsay
Threading would be acceptable if the library created it owns threads (#define OPENSSL_MAX_THREADS); threadign would then be transparent. But if the application has to be threaded to use the library, this would make the library very difficult to use (and think of the traffic on this list!).

Re: PassPhrase Prompts Twice

1999-09-02 Thread Holger Reif
Most probably. What exactly is printed out when asking for the key (i.e. for which particular VHost)? Furthermore you should use the correct list: Elise Berger schrieb: Upon bootup, the Apache server prompts for the encrypted key passphrase twice, instead of once. The first prompt, I

Re: New openssl/apps/spkac

1999-09-02 Thread Jan Meijer
Hi Massimiliano, and you should be set, just try the program and please report bugs/enhancements you might want to add. I tried your patch today, it compiled smoothly. It also works :) You've made me a happy man :) The keysize is exactly what I was looking for, but there are two things I