Re: Multi-level certificate chains

2013-11-14 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:07:19PM -0500, Dave Thompson wrote: If certs created with openssl commandline (which OP didn't actually say) you can have both keyid and serial only if the issuance operation specified keyid[:always],issuer:always which the standard openssl.cnf doesn't. And in

X509_verify() failing to verify valid certificate in old OpenSSL versions

2013-11-14 Thread Dimitrios Apostolou
Hello, some time now I'm having problems with X509_verify() from openssl-1.0.0-27.el6_4.2.i686 shipped with latest RHEL 6. The problem is that a self-signed certificate that I generate and verify on the server side, fails to verify on the client side after the TLS handshake. Since this

Re: X509_verify() failing to verify valid certificate in old OpenSSL versions

2013-11-14 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: some time now I'm having problems with X509_verify() from openssl-1.0.0-27.el6_4.2.i686 shipped with latest RHEL 6. The problem is that a self-signed certificate that I generate and verify on the server side, fails to verify on the client side

Re: X509_verify() failing to verify valid certificate in old OpenSSL versions

2013-11-14 Thread Dimitrios Apostolou
On Thu, 14 Nov 2013, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: On Thu, Nov 14, 2013, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: + *) Don't reencode certificate when calculating signature: cache and use + the original encoding instead. This makes signature verification of + some broken encodings work correctly. Can

Re: [tor-talk] BitMail.sf.net v 0.6 - Secure Encrypting Email Client

2013-11-14 Thread grarpamp
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 2:38 AM, rw...@countermail.com wrote: Hello, can BitMail.sf.net as a p2p email tool for encrypted Email (and hybrid with IMAP-Email) be regarded as a reference model for research to create a secure Email Client? as it uses both, gnupg and openssl!

How do RAs fit in with the use of CAs?

2013-11-14 Thread Ted Byers
I have been working through a tutorial that talks about the use of openssl, creating root, intermediate, and signing CAs. While the front page mentions RAs, it says nothing about how they fit, as one is creating CAs, and crts. The only thing that it says is that an RA may be the same as a CA.

Re: Fwd: How to tweak openSSL vulnerabilities CVE-2013-0169

2013-11-14 Thread Alok Sharma
Hi Steve, Thanks for reply. Do you have idea how CBC ciphers can be disabled? Regards, Alok On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Dr. Stephen Henson st...@openssl.orgwrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2013, Alok Sharma wrote: One of the openSSL vulnerabilities is: CVE-2013-0169: The TLS