Re: OCSP nonce was: RE: cvs commit: openssl/ssls3_lib.cssl.hssl_algs.cssl_ciph.cssl_locl.h tls1.h

2001-02-09 Thread Peter Gutmann
Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Gutmann) pgut001 Given that (statistically speaking) the client will be a pgut001 Windoze box with a time which is more or less random, the use pgut001 of absolute timestamps doesn't add much, it would have

RE: OCSP nonce was: RE: cvs commit: openssl/ssls3_lib.cssl.hssl_algs.cssl_ciph.cssl_locl.h tls1.h

2001-02-08 Thread Peter Gutmann
"Florian Oelmaier" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We do the same, as we directly connect to the CA-database, but we set thisUpdate to the actual time as this seems to make more sense. It would be fine to have an option within OpenSSL that says: "Trust only responses with a thisUpdate not more than x

Re: test rsa values -- format?

2001-01-18 Thread Peter Gutmann
Rodney Thayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: by the way, dumpasn1 doesn't quite parse this correctly, it's got n, d, p, q, dmp1, dmq1, and iqmp. The display of 'n' is missing the last byte. Can you send me the file? (I assume that's my dumpasn1 you're referring to). Peter.

Re: OCSP responder addresses?

2001-01-05 Thread Peter Gutmann
Michael StrM-vder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dr S N Henson wrote: So does anyone have some responder addresses I can test this stuff against? http://www.valicert.com/ocsp/ - you might already know this... Isn't that the one where all the certs (on the interop web page anyway) have expired?

Re: OCSP responder addresses?

2001-01-05 Thread Peter Gutmann
Rich Salz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You might look at Identrus, www.identrus.com, since their requirement for OCSP drove many vendors, and see what partners and vendors they list. That's one of the by-invitation-only ones (they were nice enough to let me use it for interop testing, but I

Re: OCSP responder addresses?

2001-01-04 Thread Peter Gutmann
Dr S N Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So does anyone have some responder addresses I can test this stuff against? I currently know of two and there must be several more out there. That may be all there are, I was testing this a while back and had a hell of a time finding any responders

Re: CRLs and self-signed root certs.

2000-12-04 Thread Peter Gutmann
Goetz Babin-Ebell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Everybody can issue a CRL. Only a CA with CRL signing enabled can issue a CRL. A CA can issue a CRL with own revokated certificates but it can issue a CRL with revoked certificates of other CAs (at least in X509v3...) A CA can't revoke another CA's

Re: CRLs and self-signed root certs.

2000-12-04 Thread Peter Gutmann
Goetz Babin-Ebell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter Gutmann wrote: Goetz Babin-Ebell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Everybody can issue a CRL. Only a CA with CRL signing enabled can issue a CRL. Everybody who can generate a certificate with the propper flags can generate a CRL. Sure

Re: CRLs and self-signed root certs.

2000-12-01 Thread Peter Gutmann
Mats Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Should a self-signed root certificate ever need to be revoked, shall it list itself in its usual CRL(s), as the last thing it does before it is thrown away, or is it sufficient (from its users' standpoint) that it simply ceases to issue more CRLs? Noone

Re: iis certificate renewal woes

2000-10-03 Thread Peter Gutmann
nagendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've appended the PKCS#7 request generated by IIS to the end of this email. IIS creates the header "BEGIN NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST", which is interpreted as an old X509 request (see pem.h). Ohgodohgod what a mess! That's PKCS #7 signed data containing a data

Re: 0.9.6 incompatible with 0.9.5a on Win32

2000-09-26 Thread Peter Gutmann
Jeffrey Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting from Peter Gutmann's paper when he describes the use of the ToolHelp library: "Since even a moderately loaded system can contain over 500 heap objects and 50 modules, we need to limit the duration of the poll to a second or two, which is

Re: Outlook certs - bug in MS or OpenSSL?

2000-06-21 Thread Peter Gutmann
PaweM-3 Krawczyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My question is if this is a bug in MS software (it shouldn't be generating such certs), or OpenSSL is getting this wrong as a signed number? AFAIK it's bugs in both. MS have always got the sign bit wrong in their encoding, but it's not that much of a

Re: OpenSSL win32 build settings

2000-06-19 Thread Peter Gutmann
Borland has made its command-line compiler tools freely available: http://www.borland.com/bcppbuilder/freecompiler It's not quite free, they make you run a serious gauntlet of registation and logging and cookies and javascript before you can finally get a copy. It'd be less painful if they

Re: Adding BF to tls WIN32 static linking of ssl libraries.

2000-05-08 Thread Peter Gutmann
Dr Stephen Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It would be possible to add BF cipher suites giving them experimental numbers but ideally some "official" numbers should be used. There's an infintely-delayed informational RFC for BF which I have sitting on a machine somewhere, if it's required (to

Re: PERL Module Problem...

2000-02-11 Thread Peter Gutmann
Dr Stephen Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any circumstances where the environment isn't safe? I believe extra privs are normally needed to read another users processes environment. Under DEC Unixen you can read anyone's environment without any extra privs (ps -wwae or a variant

Re: X9.42 DH test vectors.

2000-01-22 Thread Peter Gutmann
Dr Stephen Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One problem with X9.42 DH. I haven't seen any examples of the domain parameter generation (the one based on DSA) that have m 160 (Other then the S/MIME examples stuff which so far I can't reproduce and which no one says they've independently

Re: HELP

1999-12-15 Thread Peter Gutmann
"Sean O'Dell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: HELP "What was the name of the Beatles film released in July 1965?". That's correct, and it looks like he's won a chance to read the FAQ... Peter. __ OpenSSL Project

Re: DN formats

1999-11-09 Thread Peter Gutmann
Chris Ridd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I read Peter Guttmann's screed on X.509 and char sets last night - interesting, though he does fall into the trap of discussing all the myriad of drafts, and forgetting that these are just drafts. The standards themselves are less ambiguous. The reason I

Re: References: where ?

1999-10-22 Thread Peter Gutmann
Ben Laurie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am in search of the following references. Does anybody know where them can be found? ISO/IEC 8824-1:1995: Information technology - Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) -- Specification of basic notation. 1995 Haha. Prepare to be thoroughly

Re: Image or voice extension.

1999-10-20 Thread Peter Gutmann
"Qin, Xiangping" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wish to add some image or voice to the certificate. Can you give me some advice on how to do it? Just define an OID and put it in the altName as an otherName. I did this about a year ago for the MPEG-of-cat certificate, which you can get from

Re: Bug in d2i_X509_CRL_INFO ?

1999-10-13 Thread Peter Gutmann
"Paul Keogh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a problem decoding a CRL which is missing the VERSION field but which has extensions present. This is a known problem with CRL's, to accomodate these things you have to ignore the version number and be prepared to handle extensions regardless of

RE: UNSUBSCRIBE

1999-05-05 Thread Peter Gutmann
Is it still illegal to kill people who post unsubscribe messages to mailing lists? Normally I'd let it pass, but since he posted the same thing multiple times after having mixed in a bucketful of HTML and passed it through a blender set on "frappe", I think the application of

Re: cvs commit: openssl STATUS

1999-02-23 Thread Peter Gutmann
The best way is to talk Peter Gutmann into donating his randomness-gathering code (or to implement something similar). For efficiency that should probably be combined with a seed file. This has already been done so it could be used with GPG (actually it's always been available for the asking

Re: FW: Color me Stupid...

1999-02-20 Thread Peter Gutmann
"Chad C. Mulligan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As far as I know El-Gammal has everything you want from PKC and it's used in GNU's GPG, the PGP replacement. It's unpatented, too, and free for use anywhere. So why hasn't anyone ever put an El-Gammal cipher suite in an SSL implementation? Is it