General Questions.... Open SSL and Windows..

2009-06-12 Thread Carl Furner
1) Can I compile Openssl fips 1.2 with VC9 and have it still be validated? 2) Can I compile Openssl fips 1.2 on a win32 environment for x64. In otherwords, compile x64 on XP Windows and run Vista x64 with the binaries compiled and still be validated? 3) Is it possible to change the names

General Questions

2006-08-17 Thread David Irvine
Hi This may be a double post if it is I apologise (I think I may have posted this before I was authorised by majordomo). I have started using encryption and thought I would try this out. My question(s) are as follows - please be gentle 1: How is the IV handled in (AES) encryption - I can see

Re: General Questions

2006-08-17 Thread Marek Marcola
Hello, 1: How is the IV handled in (AES) encryption - I can see supplying an initial vector is good but it also appears this should change with every encryption (if you like). So does a user have to know this + key ? IV is used by encryption mode (like CBC) not by encryption algorithm like AES.

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2006-08-17 Thread Ambarish Mitra
the ciphertext for 1st block? This is where IV comes in. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Irvine Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 5:27 PM To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: General Questions Hi This may be a double post if it is I

Re: General Questions

2006-08-17 Thread David Irvine
Many thanks for a fantastic explanation and for taking the time to help me. I was just reading some docs there pointing me to this but you have saved me a good few hours. I will search out info for python info on PBKDF2 many thanks for that. Just quickly though in point 3 does that mean I

Re: General Questions

2006-08-17 Thread Marek Marcola
Hello, Just quickly though in point 3 does that mean I should use ECB mode or not if I am going to split the file and send two parts to different locations? Of course not, look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher_modes_of_operation (link posted to that list before). Best

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2006-08-17 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
--- David Irvine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Many thanks for a fantastic explanation and for taking the time tohelp me. I was just reading some docs there pointing me to this but youhave saved me a good few hours. I will search out info for python info on

Re: General Questions

2006-08-17 Thread David Irvine
ohhps :-[ thanks again - I am more educated than I was 10 mins ago. I hope other folk read this and don't repeat my stupid question. CFB mode for me then (we may stream the data back a bit at a time). Again brilliant David Marek Marcola wrote: Hello, Just quickly though in

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2006-08-17 Thread David Irvine
Girish Venkatachalam wrote: --- David Irvine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Many thanks for a fantastic explanation and for taking the time tohelp me. I was just reading some docs there pointing me to this but youhave saved me a good few hours. I will search

Re: Few general questions

2004-09-03 Thread Sylvain MARECHAL
Edward Chan a écrit: So to use native windows async i/o, I need to do the I/O myself (using bio pairs). Then I assume there is an easy way to figure out the ciphers and things agreed upon during the ssl handshake? Is this stuff readily available in the SSL object? At the risk of sounding lazy,

Few general questions

2004-09-02 Thread Edward Chan
Title: Few general questions Is it possible to do gather writes with OpenSSL? For example, instead of SSL_write(), is there something like SSL_writev()? When doing SSL_read(), the bytes read have already been unencrypted. Is there a way to figure out how much data was read before decrypting

RE: Few general questions

2004-09-02 Thread David Schwartz
Is it possible to do gather writes with OpenSSL? For example, instead of SSL_write(), is there something like SSL_writev()? No. If you're going to use SSL_write, you should gather the data into your own buffer first. When doing SSL_read(), the bytes read have already been

RE: Few general questions

2004-09-02 Thread Edward Chan
to use to determine this info? :) Thanks, Ed -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Schwartz Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 12:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Few general questions Is it possible to do gather writes

RE: Few general questions

2004-09-02 Thread David Schwartz
So to use native windows async i/o, I need to do the I/O myself (using bio pairs). Then I assume there is an easy way to figure out the ciphers and things agreed upon during the ssl handshake? Is this stuff readily available in the SSL object? At the risk of sounding lazy, what API's do I

Re: General questions about Diffie-Hellman

1999-08-12 Thread Dr Stephen Henson
Vincent Levesque wrote: Hello, I've looked around and I'm still a little bit confused about a few details of Diffie-Hellman. (This is not specific to openssl so feel free to ignore me :-). First of all, my "experimentations" seem to show that only the server side needs Diffie-Hellman