Re: OpenSSL 0.9.8m renegotiation alerts?

2010-02-25 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 02:45:19AM +0100, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010, Victor Duchovni wrote: > > > > > If I field a patched server, and sufficiently many unpatched pre-0.9.8m > > OpenSSL clients attempt re-negotiation under normal conditions, I have > > a resource starvatio

Re: OpenSSL 0.9.8m renegotiation alerts?

2010-02-25 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010, Victor Duchovni wrote: > > If I field a patched server, and sufficiently many unpatched pre-0.9.8m > OpenSSL clients attempt re-negotiation under normal conditions, I have > a resource starvation problem and unhappy users who are more annoyed at > stuck connections than fail

Re: OpenSSL 0.9.8m renegotiation alerts?

2010-02-25 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:45:14PM +0100, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: > This isn't a DoS issue as such it's just the client sending a message and > never getting the reply it expects. You'd get exactly the same behaviour by > connecting to a server and either never sending any data or deliberately n

Re: Another "memory growing" on AIX

2010-02-25 Thread Mike Brennan
Tim Hudson wrote: > Can you make a small test program which demonstrates this behaviour? > Typically some cleanup code is being missed when this is sort of thing is > raised; however a bit of test code makes it fairly easy to track down using a > combination of the malloc wrapper func

RE: TLS connect problem with different OpenSSL library

2010-02-25 Thread Dave Thompson
(Sorry for delay, thought I sent this Tue but apparently it didn't go, and I wasn't in Wed.) > From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org On Behalf Of Peter Lin > Sent: Monday, 22 February, 2010 03:20 > I have a TLS server application which the old OpenSSL library > has no problem

Re: OpenSSL 0.9.8m renegotiation alerts?

2010-02-25 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010, Victor Duchovni wrote: > > OpenSSL clients treat the warning as fatal because there is no API provision > to renegotiate and then continue if it is refused. So to be cautious we assume > that if an application wants a renegot

Re: OpenSSL 0.9.8m renegotiation alerts?

2010-02-25 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010, Victor Duchovni wrote: > > If I am reading this correctly, unpatched OpenSSL clients will definitely > hang if the client initiates renegotiation to a patched server? If so, > why not send a fatal alert (especially if non-buggy clients treat it > as fatal)? What is the point

OpenSSL 0.9.8m renegotiation alerts?

2010-02-25 Thread Victor Duchovni
The documentation about renegotiation between an unpatched client and a patched server reads: Unpatched client and patched OpenSSL server --- The initial connection suceeds but client renegotiation is denied by the server with a B warning a

RE: Sign an SSL certificate with mutile trusted roots?

2010-02-25 Thread David Schwartz
Rene Hollan wrote: > I guess I'm just dense and stupid. Won't that fail since the CA > IC cert won't be signed by the CA cert identified as it's issuer? Yeah, I think you're right. I made the same mistake I was trying to convince the OP not to make -- thinking that CAs sign certificates. The pub

Crash in BIO_set_fp()

2010-02-25 Thread Michael Boman
Hello list, On line 1014 in the code uploaded at http://pastebin.ca/1810624 the program crashes. The relevant code snippet looks like this: // Setup BIO's stdoutBIO = BIO_new(BIO_s_file()); BIO_set_fp(stdoutBIO, stdout, BIO_NOCLOSE); if (options->xmlOutput != 0) { fileBIO = BIO_new(BIO_s_file());

Re: Another "memory growing" on AIX

2010-02-25 Thread Tim Hudson
Mike Brennan wrote: > The process's memory footprint increases linerally with connections, > and this linear growth is quite constant. As David reports, memory seems > to be allocated in multiples of 4K, but the linear memory growth is > around 136 bytes per connection. I've confirmed this up to

Re: Crash in BIO_set_fp()

2010-02-25 Thread Michael Boman
I forgot to mention the important stuff: OpenSSL 0.9.8l 5 Nov 2009 Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition Windows 7 Enterprise (64-bit) Best regards Michael Boman 2010/2/25 Michael Boman > Hello list, > > On line 1014 in the code uploaded at http://pastebin.ca/1810624 the > program crashes. The relev

OpenSSL and slow internet connections

2010-02-25 Thread jott321
Hello, This applies to internet connections with speeds of less than 0.75 Mb/s (usually found on dial-up and slow performance DSL connections). Wtih faster connections, no problems. Using version 0.9.8k on the client and server, when uploading large data streams from the client to the server u

RE: Sign an SSL certificate with mutile trusted roots?

2010-02-25 Thread Rene Hollan
I guess I'm just dense and stupid. Won't that fail since the CA IC cert won't be signed by the CA cert identified as it's issuer? -Original Message- From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org on behalf of David Schwartz Sent: Wed 2/24/2010 4:06 PM To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: RE: Si

setting FIPS_set_mode on HP PA64

2010-02-25 Thread Vikram Arwade
Hi All, Am running into a issue where I am trying to set FIPS_set_mode(1) in shared library on HP PA64(11.11) system, but it fails with FINGER_PRINT error. But if I set it in binary(executable) it works fine. Any pointer really appreciated. Regards, --Vikram