Re: Help (2)

2000-06-21 Thread Jorge Olmos
Once I have got serv.o, I link it with a line like this on my sun-Solaris: g++ serv.o -L (path to your openssl installation)/openssl/lib -lssl -lcrypto -lsocket -lnsl -o serv It's all the same for cli. Try to be more specific. Which libraries are not found? Albert Serra wrote: Sorry, but

Re: Random Numbers in Client Hello and Server Hello

2000-06-21 Thread Pete Chown
Raghuram Belur wrote: I am wondering if it is possible to use some simple cross-platform [PRNG] on the client which is probably not too hard to guess and use a more robust mechanism such as an entropy gathering daemon on the server You will have to be very careful. For example, if you use

Re: Help (2)

2000-06-21 Thread Albert Serra
Thank you, now the problem is: with server when I execute it it appears on the screen that: [23=0]serra@lsisun4/~/OpenSSL/opensslsun/demos/ssl>server 28901:error:02001002:system library:fopen:system lib:bss_file.c:244:fopen('./foo-cert.pem','r') 28901:error:20074002:BIO routines:FILE_CTRL:system

Re: Apache+SSL

2000-06-21 Thread Martin Kraemer
On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 11:21:03AM +0200, Petr Zeman wrote: Hallo! Can you help me with my new problem with APACHE? I would like to install SSL into my APACHE. I downloaded source of APACHE 1.3.12, mod_ssl-2.6.4.-1.3.12, openssl-0.9.5a, complied it and install it (as is written in mod_ssl

Re: Cipher question...

2000-06-21 Thread Douglas Wikström
hello! There is a nice text on the theory of PRG:s by Goldreich downloadable for free at his homepage if somebody is interested. http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~oded/frag.html Another general tip on Crypto texts for free is lecture notes by Bellare: http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/mihir/papers/gb.html

RE: Apache+SSL

2000-06-21 Thread BIRAGNET Jean-françois
Here is a document written by Lenya Khachaturov that has helped me to install the certificates created for the MSIE or Netscape client : -Message d'origine- De: Martin Kraemer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: mercredi 21 juin 2000 12:59 À:Petr Zeman Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Suspending certificate

2000-06-21 Thread Bob McConnell
Ah, no they just have a later expiration date. Bob McConnell -Original Message- From: Rich Salz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 10:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "Suspending" certificate But as someone pointed out, to complicate things

Re: Suspending certificate

2000-06-21 Thread Peter Sylvester
Folks, I wonder why people think that thousands of real life procedures concerning the production of 'valid documents' can be simply replaced by a digital signature and a timestamp. The IETF actual timestamping just uses signatures, thus the problem of putting a document in time also applies

Re: How do I install a Verisign Cert.

2000-06-21 Thread Einar Indridason
You can look at http://www.apache-ssl.org under the FAQ and it has step by step instructions if you find you need more information...Helps even if you aren't using apache-ssl... You might also need to add a "chain" / "intermediate" cert Check out: http://www.verisign.com/cus/srv/install/g/

Re: Help (2)

2000-06-21 Thread Jorge Olmos
Albert Serra wrote: You need a certificate and a private key, which are in different files. Look at the references tab in the openssl page. There is a text called SSleay Certificate Cookbook which explains the way to make your own certs and keys. Thank you, now the problem is: with server

RE: Help (2)

2000-06-21 Thread Wade L. Scholine
It's beginning to look like your problems have to do with basic C programming competancy. You need to get up to speed on how to make your compiler work before you can ask for help here. -Original Message- From: Albert Serra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000

Re: How much is PKI suitable for legal acts?

2000-06-21 Thread Jaanus Kase
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... As much as I understand, every certificate (user or CA) has limited time to live and after user certificate or any of his/her CA certificate has expired, it is no longer possible to verify it, what may be serious source of problems

OCSP patch kit for OpenSSL

2000-06-21 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
A lot of people seem to want a preview of what I do, so here it is, the current snapshot of the OCSP stuff I'm working with, available at http://www.stacken.kth.se/~levitte/OpenSSL/. Note that there are two variants, one with patches relative to OpenSSL 0.9.5a and one relative to the current

RSA Legalities

2000-06-21 Thread Brian Aberle
To build a legally royalty free SSL implementation what RSA algorithms do I need to abstain from using? When does the RSA patent expire? 1. The apps/req.exe utilitygeneratesthis key thatI use to for the certificate authority in apps/CA.exe. -BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-Proc-Type:

Re: Random Numbers in Client Hello and Server Hello

2000-06-21 Thread Dr Stephen Henson
raghuram belur wrote: Unfortunately, requesting input from the user is not an option for the application that I am working on. This is one of the reasons why I am trying to see if there is a way to "dumb down" the randomization on the client and make it mostly a server side issue. I am

Re: libcrypto: Saving sensitive data on an Internet-connected computer.

2000-06-21 Thread Rich Salz
Hello again, folks. I have a bit of a dilemma here. Yes, you do. You need to look at what you are trying to protect yourself from. For example, are you worried that someone can download your database? If so, why are you not worried that they could download your decrypt program? If they can

Re: RSA Legalities

2000-06-21 Thread Rich Salz
To build a legally royalty free SSL implementation what RSA algorithms do I need to abstain from using? When does the RSA patent expire? *ALL* RSA algorithms are covered by patent until Sept 20. If you need to work with current browsers, pragmatically speaking you must have RSA. 1. The

test

2000-06-21 Thread David Lampert

Re: Random Numbers in Client Hello and Server Hello

2000-06-21 Thread raghuram belur
Thanks for the info. I have a follow-up question based on my specific situation. The cipher suite I am forcing the client and server to negotiate to is EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA(I am also requiring sslv3). That being the case, is not having true randomness on the client a risk? How good is the

FW: DSA -req and the ever present PRNG

2000-06-21 Thread Scott Pasnikowski
On win32/NT. When I try to create a self signed certificate I am getting the PRNG not seeded error. Okay, so that's got something to do with the random number generator not being seeded. (as far as I can tell) Now when I generated a private DSA

not enough random bytes

2000-06-21 Thread Taral
I have a /dev/urandom, and openssl reads 16 bytes from it. However the PRNG still reports insufficient entropy. Anyone have any idea why, and how I can fix it? (besides using the -rand option) Taral __ OpenSSL Project

Re: not enough random bytes

2000-06-21 Thread Taral
On 21 Jun, Ulf Möller wrote: On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 03:41:58PM -0500, Taral wrote: I have a /dev/urandom, and openssl reads 16 bytes from it. However the PRNG still reports insufficient entropy. Anyone have any idea why, and how I can fix it? (besides using the -rand option) Which

DSS/DSA - previous mails

2000-06-21 Thread Scott Pasnikowski
Hello again, What ciphers specifically related to DSA or can use DSA ? -Translation- I need to connect to a server that supports using RSA and DSA and want to be sure it connect with DSA. The server is going to authenticate my client

RE: Cipher question...

2000-06-21 Thread Michael Wojcik
From: Lutz Jaenicke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 1:09 PM On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 01:51:34PM -0400, Bill Rebey wrote: [what's the PRNG seed data used for, and why is it important?] The question is not the amount of data, it is the amount of