Re: IMPORTANT: The release of 0.9.6h is postponed

2002-11-24 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 23 Nov 2002 13:36:43 -0500, Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: geoff But then we already knew that - Peter Gutmann had pointed out in the past geoff that a single write of zeroes to disk or memory doesn't protect against geoff the previous values being

Re: IMPORTANT: The release of 0.9.6h is postponed

2002-11-24 Thread Jeffrey Altman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 23 Nov 2002 13:36:43 -0500, Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: geoff But then we already knew that - Peter Gutmann had pointed out in the past geoff that a single write of zeroes to disk or memory doesn't protect against geoff the previous values

Re: Combine certificates into chain

2002-11-24 Thread Sebastian Lisken
I'm curious. You say your CA gave you a PKCS12 file with a cert in it, *and* a private key in it? Whose private key did they give you? If it's yours, then you've just opened a huge security hole by allowing them access to your private key. If it's someone else's, can you send it to me so

Re: Converting own CA certificate to pkcs12

2002-11-24 Thread Vadim Fedukovich
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 01:50:37PM -0500, Chris Jarshant wrote: You can't convert a public key certificate into a PKCS12 file - the openssl pkcs12 routine *requires* a private key to be in such a file along with the public key, which you cannot have (CAs don't give out their private keys).

Re: engines and keys

2002-11-24 Thread Jonathan Hersch
--- Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ENGINE is a sort of container for implementations of the various ***_METHOD implementations, and the method tables have always worked this way too. Ie. upon creation, a structure is linked to a function table that handles processing. In the

Re: Converting own CA certificate to pkcs12

2002-11-24 Thread Chris Jarshant
- Original Message - From: Vadim Fedukovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 12:46 PM Subject: Re: Converting own CA certificate to pkcs12 On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 01:50:37PM -0500, Chris Jarshant wrote: You can't convert a public key

RE: Combine certificates into chain

2002-11-24 Thread Jimi Thompson
SNIP So Microsoft, trying to be clever again, seems to have fooled me into thinking the chain could be in the file, whereas now I know it isn't in my example file and I suspect it can never be. If anyone can confirm this, I'd be interested. /SNIP Sebastian, This is indeed the

Re: Combine certificates into chain

2002-11-24 Thread Jason Haar
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 09:29:09PM -0800, Jimi Thompson wrote: It is also interesting to note that for practical purposes Certificate Revocation Lists are invalid. While they do exist and are part of the standard, very few applications are written to take advantage of them. Once a

RE: Combine certificates into chain

2002-11-24 Thread Jimi Thompson
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 09:29:09PM -0800, Jimi Thompson wrote: It is also interesting to note that for practical purposes Certificate Revocation Lists are invalid. While they do exist and are part of the standard, very few applications are written to take advantage of them. Once a certificate

Re: Combine certificates into chain

2002-11-24 Thread Karl-Michael Werzowa
Yes, this we use as well. Using LDAP for the authentication, including certs, allows to forget the CRL-stuff, if you need it for authentication on a server or portal. And, compared to CRLs, it is much more real time. Am 2002-11-25 7:53 Uhr schrieb Jimi Thompson unter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ...