Re: FIPS and rebasing

2013-09-10 Thread stefan.n...@t-online.de
Hi, > My executable loads a DLL (A) which loads a second DLL (B), and that > second DLL is linked with the OpenSSL libraries, so the libeay32.dll > and ssleay32.dll are loaded automatically when B loads. However, > libeay32.dll does not always load  at the right address, an

AW: Insecure DEFAULT cipher set

2014-03-31 Thread stefan.n...@t-online.de
> You're still playing "my security level is bigger than yours". > There is no benefit in excluding RC4-SHA1 from the default list. > When servers support stronger algorithms, those will be negotiated. But that is only true as long as there is no new attack which succesfully downgrades the cipher

AW: [openssl.org #3312] OpenSSL :: crypto/mem.c without "memset()" calls?

2014-04-15 Thread stefan.n...@t-online.de
Hi, > I have "checked" the current source code of 'crpyto/mem.c' and I'm a > little bit suprised that no memset()-calls are made before the free_*() > functions are entered. I think a "zeroing" of the previous used memory > is a good solutions to beware for accessing old memory content.

AW: openssl 1.0.2 beta1 and heartbleed

2014-04-21 Thread stefan.n...@t-online.de
Hi, > I just noted that the latest openssl 1.0.2 beta1 version was released > before the heartbleed bug became public and is thus vulnerable. (snipp) > Can the openssl devs create a new beta2 version that includes the > heartbleed fix? Quoting from the security advisory (see https://www

AW: Which platforms will be supported in the future on which platforms will be removed?

2014-06-02 Thread stefan.n...@t-online.de
Hi, > > Which platforms are deprecaded an could/should be removed in the > > sourcecode? > > MS-DOS? > > Windows 16 Bit? > > OS/2? > > Windows 95/98/ME? > > Windows NT/2000/XP? > > Necessary criteria for a platform to be included in the first list would be: > * Currency, i.e. a platfo

AW: Platform query

2014-08-20 Thread stefan.n...@t-online.de
> Does anyone want to speak up for the requirement that we continue to support > BEOS (apparently B/1 and R5?), OS/2, or pre-Windows MSDOS? Which timeframe do we look at? E.g. if 1.0.2 is released this year and it's successor where OS/2 support is removed maybe 2-3 years later (say beginning

AW: Platform query

2014-08-21 Thread stefan.n...@t-online.de
Hi, > There are 70 files that have OS2 in them, for a total of 130 instances. Strange. Here, I obtain: > grep -r OS2 * | wc -l 52 > grep -r OS2 * | sed "s/\([^:]*\)\:.*/\1/" | uniq | wc -l 22 i.e. 22 files with a total of 52 instances. Did I miss something, or did you happen to count the

AW: [openssl.org #3598] Windows Phone & OpenSSL.

2014-11-12 Thread stefan.n...@t-online.de
Hello, > I think that my patched version for WCE should work for windows phone : > https://www.mail-archive.com/openssl-dev@openssl.org/msg35958.html Mostly (probably) yes, however (see my patch), I don't think the random number generation used for WCE works for Windows Phone and I reall

AW: [openssl.org #3598] Windows Phone & OpenSSL.

2014-11-13 Thread stefan.n...@t-online.de
Hi, >> About random numbers generation, see that (still open) discussion and >> suggestions...: >> https://www.mail-archive.com/openssl-dev@openssl.org/msg36812.html > > But that's only relevant for standard windows desktop and neither for > WCE nor for windows phone, isn't it? At le

Re: [PATCH: CVE-2011-1473]: Fight against DoS in openssl

2011-12-20 Thread stefan.n...@t-online.de
Hi, > > I have just produced a patch against the upstream HEAD version, to > > seek a way to fight against DoS attack in openssl itself, > > the logic is simple, get client's ip address in BIO layer, > > and send this info to upper SSL layer; In SSL layer, > > according to the cl

Re: [openssl.org #2306] wrong extensions for loadable modules on MacOSX

2010-07-15 Thread stefan.n...@t-online.de
Hi, > A .dylib is a shared library - not a loadable module (.bundle/.so). > MacOSX treats those differently, so trying to dlopen a .dylib is > wrong. I rather see this as a bug in early releases of MacOS X, up-to-date version (AFAIK at least 10.4 and up) don't make such a

[openssl-dev] WG: Re: [openssl.org #3628] [PATCH] NDEBUG macro and redundant strings

2015-01-23 Thread stefan.n...@t-online.de
Hi, I tried to comment on the ticket via rt, but apparently there's more to it than just sending it to r...@openssl.org using a magic subject line (or maybe it doesn't like "subject:" being replaced by the localized "Betreff:" as the webmail-frontend I'm using apparently does? Anyway, le

[openssl-dev] Usage of assembler code on ARM architectures

2015-03-12 Thread stefan.n...@t-online.de
Hi, While looking at the Configure script, I found that there is the armv4_asm variable, which seems to promise a speedup for ARM architectures (and the "4" in ARMv4 sounds like it should work "everywhere"?). However, further looking at that Configure file, I see it's only used fo

Re: [openssl-dev] Usage of assembler code on ARM architectures

2015-03-17 Thread stefan.n...@t-online.de
Hi, Thanks for the answers to my questions - here come some more. > Apple assembler uses a little bit different syntax and you can't > assemble current modules as they are. ... as I found out myself just after asking the original question, but of course, the following is good to know: >

Re: [openssl-dev] Help needed for cross-compiling openssl

2015-06-15 Thread stefan.n...@t-online.de
Hi, > For other programs, after setting the environment variables according to this guide, it is enough to run: >> > ./configure --host=mips-linux > make > > I really need your help, because it doesn't wotk with OPENSSL. That's because OpenSSL is not using a

Re: [openssl-dev] Help needed for cross-compiling openssl

2015-06-16 Thread stefan.n...@t-online.de
Hi, > Absolutely right! Except that given context OP is more likely to have to > use --cross-compile-prefix=mips-linux-, i.e. with additional dash. Yes, right, sorry about that.. > Stefan, if it appears as nitpicking, I apologize. No need to apologize. On the contrary, if one doesn't know t

Re: [openssl-dev] compile error

2015-07-24 Thread stefan.n...@t-online.de
> And I use both gcc and clang with command “cc -g -Wall -I../../include -lcrypto aesgcm.c" to compile the source code. Long version: Note that the linker processes its libraries from left to right, e.g. if you have an object file object.o and to libraries liba.a and libb.a, then "cc object.o -la -

Re: [openssl-dev] 1.0.2 long term support

2015-08-11 Thread stefan.n...@t-online.de
Hi, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > 1.0.2 long term support > === > > The OpenSSL project team would like to announce that the 1.0.2 > version will be supported until 2019-12-31. Looking at the release date of 1.0.2 (22 Jan 2015) that seems to be (very slightly) less than the "at

Re: [openssl-dev] Support for TLS SHA2-512?

2015-09-25 Thread stefan.n...@t-online.de
Hi, > Does OpenSSL support TLS with SHA2-512? No, since there is no such thing as a TLS cipher suite with SHA512. Cipher suites need to be registered and assigned IDs, so servers/clients can exchange those IDs to announce what cipher suites they support. And if you look at the probably mos

Re: [openssl-dev] [openssl.org #4067] Bug - Header files in include folder differ for different extractiing methods

2015-10-02 Thread stefan.n...@t-online.de
Hi, > I downloaded OpenSSL 1.0.0s.tar.gz and extracted files using following three > ways. > The header files in "openssl 1.0.0s\include\openssl" folder are different. > (snipp) > Is this a bug in packaging? What is the expected results on Windows? At first glance, one could say, it's a b

Re: [openssl-dev] certificate signing using rsa pss algorithm?

2015-11-12 Thread stefan.n...@t-online.de
Hi, You might want to upgrade to OpenSSL-1.0.2 which seems to support the RSA PSS algorithm, see https://openssl.org/news/changelog.html#x5. Regards, Stefan ___ openssl-dev mailing list To unsubscribe: https://mta.ope

Re: [openssl-dev] Removing obsolete crypto from OpenSSL 1.1 - seeking feedback

2015-11-13 Thread stefan.n...@t-online.de
Hi, > We are considering removing from OpenSSL 1.1 known broken > or outdated cryptographic primitives. As you may know the forks > have already done this but I'd like to seek careful feedback for > OpenSSL first to ensure we won't be breaking any major applications. [...] > My preference woul

AW: [openssl.org #3539] x509 application supports additional fingerprint digests (sha2) not shown in help.

2014-09-24 Thread stefan.n...@t-online.de via RT
Hi, > This is fixed post-1.0.2, where the message says "any supported digest" > See https://github.com/akamai/openssl/tree/rsalz-monolith for a preview. Sorry to say something you apparently don't want to hear (for completely understandable reasons), but as much as I appreciate getti

[openssl.org #3598] Windows Phone & OpenSSL.

2014-11-11 Thread stefan.n...@t-online.de via RT
Hi, While everyone is talking about removing old platforms and cleaning code, I'm going to suggest adding yet another (sub-)platform and adding (a bit) to all those #ifdef's (talk about bad timing...). I have a complete patch which at least gets everything to compile, but for

Re: [openssl-dev] [openssl.org #4067] Bug - Header files in include folder differ for different extractiing methods

2015-10-02 Thread stefan.n...@t-online.de via RT
Hi, > I downloaded OpenSSL 1.0.0s.tar.gz and extracted files using following three > ways. > The header files in "openssl 1.0.0s\include\openssl" folder are different. > (snipp) > Is this a bug in packaging? What is the expected results on Windows? At first glance, one could say, it's a b

Re: [openssl-dev] [openssl.org #4094] Nonsensical pointer comparison in PACKET_buf_init

2015-10-22 Thread stefan.n...@t-online.de via RT
Hi, Wouldn't if ( UINTPTR_MAX - (uintptr_t) buffer < len) be closer to the intention of the original check? Or is this undefined behaviour as well and I stupidly missed that fact? Regards, Stefan ___ openssl-dev mailing