Re: Generating CSR for Netscape Certificate Server based CA (fwd)

2000-01-31 Thread Nicolas Aragon
Hello, On 29 Jan 00, at 19:48, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote: To date, I have not been able to generate a CSR that is acceptable to the Netscape Certificate Server. All requests are rejected with a "bad DER encoding" error. I had the same error message from Navigator with a certificate

SSL_read problem

2000-01-31 Thread Amir Amit
hi. when I run SSL_read on a socket (as the client), where the server is down, SSL_read returns with 0 - as there where no bytes to read from socket. This is not true - the server is down and there will never be something to read from server. Because the SSL_read command is non blocking and is

RE: HTTP-Post and OpenSSL

2000-01-31 Thread Reiner Buehl
Hi, I had no problems using LWP::UserAgent and Crypt::SSLeay for HTTPS-Post. You just have to apply a small patch to LWP if you have to use a proxy for your https connection but then everything works fine. The only thing I did not (yet) get to work is SSL with client authentication using client

R: Automatic certs import into Netscape

2000-01-31 Thread Stefano Bergamasco
Thanks Ivan, it may be very useful form my work, but I can't reach the page: anything down with your server? Bye, Stefano Bergamasco -Messaggio Originale- Da: Ivan Visconti [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data invio: Friday, January 28, 2000 2:17 PM Oggetto: Re: Automatic certs

Re: Generating CSR for Netscape Certificate Server based CA (fwd)

2000-01-31 Thread Dr Stephen Henson
Nicolas Aragon wrote: Hello, On 29 Jan 00, at 19:48, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote: To date, I have not been able to generate a CSR that is acceptable to the Netscape Certificate Server. All requests are rejected with a "bad DER encoding" error. I had the same error message

Success message after installing netscape certificate?

2000-01-31 Thread Reiner Buehl
Hi, I managed to get certificates installed in Netscape Browsers by sending them with MIME type application/x-x509-user-cert but Netscape seems to give no kind of a success message. Is it possible to get such a message or popup window? I tried to send the certificate and a success page as parts

Requesting browser (client) certificates

2000-01-31 Thread Issac Goldstand
I would like to set up a script that will generate client certificates from within the browser and send the csr files to me for signing. How would I go about telling the browser to generate a key pair, and what kind of output would it give me. Also, although I beleive it should not be necessary

Re: SSL_read problem

2000-01-31 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Amir Amit wrote: hi. when I run SSL_read on a socket (as the client), where the server is down, SSL_read returns with 0 - as there where no bytes to read from socket. This is not true - the server is down and there will never be something to read from server. Because

Browsers don't like my certificates?

2000-01-31 Thread Garrett Wollman
I couldn't find an FAQ anywhere which might explain this problem. We're developing a CA of our own to issue server and client certificates for internal applications. I've been working on the Web application which allows users to apply for certs -- naturally, this is an SSL server itself. (Oh,

how to use SSL

2000-01-31 Thread Qing Huo
Dear sir: I am newbie, I want to know how to use the SSL in my program. I want to stup this concept in my mind. Can you tell me something about this? Or can you tell some websites or books about thids? Thanks Qing __ OpenSSL

error: bad command or file name

2000-01-31 Thread Qing Huo
Hi, I am newbie, I am trying setup SSL on my system. My system is windows 98 and VC++6.0 has been setup on my machine. I tried following steps: 1. openssl-0.9.4perl Configure VC-Win32 2. openssl-0.9.4ms\do_ms 3. openssl-0.9.4nmake -f ms\ntdll.mak the first two steps are successful.

Bug report: primality testing algorithm.

2000-01-31 Thread Paulo S. L. M. Barreto
Greetings. I'm implementing elliptic curve software on top of OpenSSL Bignum library. When testing it on NIST's standard curves, I found a problem that seems not to be in my code: Bignum reports that NIST's 384-bit prime is not prime! I've checked the value with MIRACL and Java (which in

Re: error: bad command or file name

2000-01-31 Thread Dr Stephen Henson
Qing Huo wrote: Hi, I am newbie, I am trying setup SSL on my system. My system is windows 98 and VC++6.0 has been setup on my machine. I tried following steps: 1. openssl-0.9.4perl Configure VC-Win32 2. openssl-0.9.4ms\do_ms 3. openssl-0.9.4nmake -f ms\ntdll.mak the

Re: Bug report: primality testing algorithm.

2000-01-31 Thread Dr Stephen Henson
Paulo S. L. M. Barreto wrote: Greetings. I'm implementing elliptic curve software on top of OpenSSL Bignum library. Interesting. Will you be making the code public? When testing it on NIST's standard curves, I found a problem that seems not to be in my code: Bignum reports that NIST's

Where can I find info on how to use openssl-0.9.4?

2000-01-31 Thread Will Bradley
Where can I find info on how to use openssl-0.9.4? Is there any documentation for this API? Thanks, Will Bradley Software Engineer/Intern Anark Communications http://www.anark.com __ OpenSSL Project

Re: Bug report: primality testing algorithm.

2000-01-31 Thread Dr Stephen Henson
Dr Stephen Henson wrote: When testing it on NIST's standard curves, I found a problem that seems not to be in my code: Bignum reports that NIST's 384-bit prime is not prime! Do you have a URL referencing these NIST standard curves? Ignore that. I've found the URL. On NISTs site

Re: Setting up OpenSSL

2000-01-31 Thread Skye Poier
Word on the street is that HEIN Martin said: Unfortunately I cannot find any documentation on how to set up OpenSSL appropriately, i.e. configuring both the global and user-specific *.cnf-files, as well as creating public and private keys. This site helped me get going:

Re: SSL_read problem

2000-01-31 Thread Skye Poier
Word on the street is that Amir Amit said: when I run SSL_read on a socket (as the client), where the server is down, SSL_read returns with 0 - as there where no bytes to read from socket. This is not true - the server is down and there will never be something to read from server. Because the

Re: urgenttly need help

2000-01-31 Thread Skye Poier
Word on the street is that Yossapon Sutharattanachaiporn said: I got an error around ssl_connect/ssl_accept line. this is my code. Do i miss any step? Yes, you're missing the step where you check the return value and if the call fails, print out the reason with ERR_print_errors() Check

Re: Bug report: primality testing algorithm.

2000-01-31 Thread Ben Laurie
"Paulo S. L. M. Barreto" wrote: Greetings. I'm implementing elliptic curve software on top of OpenSSL Bignum library. When testing it on NIST's standard curves, I found a problem that seems not to be in my code: Bignum reports that NIST's 384-bit prime is not prime! I've checked the