Re: Reducing size of the OpenSSL library

2005-06-24 Thread J. Wren Hunt
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 02:55:12 -0700 (PDT), Gayathri Sundar [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: could you pls tell how the ssl performance is affected by including the Os flag? looks like quite a few of the optimizations are disabled here. You can compile for speed or you can compile for size but if

Re: Reducing size of the OpenSSL library

2005-06-23 Thread J. Wren Hunt
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 11:11:18 -0700 (PDT), Krishna M Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi All I was trying to reduce the size of the openSsl library due to memory constraints on our platform. I tried to remove three patented ciphers idea, rc5 and mdc2. Any ideas what more can be done to reduce

Re: CA certificate authentication

2005-06-06 Thread J. Wren Hunt
. For the experiment, we created the certificate files/stores and key files/stores with OpenSSL and Java utilities. I'm not a Java guy but be aware that the 1.4JDK only supports keys up to 1024 bits. If you need bigger key lengths (e.g., 2048, 4096) you'll need to go to 1.5+ -- Cheers! J. Wren

Re: simple question again

2005-05-18 Thread J. Wren Hunt
believe. Diffie-Hellman is a key-exchange protocol, not an encryption protocol. If we're helping this chap understand certs a little better let's not confuse him inordinately! ;-) -- Cheers! J. Wren Hunt Cambridge, MA. USA I have never killed anyone, but I have read some obituaries