RE: openssl on a home LAN

2012-09-13 Thread Steven Madwin
are looking to do? Steve From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org [mailto:owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org] On Behalf Of John A. Wallace Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 9:58 AM To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: RE: openssl on a home LAN Hi, Gayathri, I appreciate the clarification

Re: openssl on a home LAN

2012-09-13 Thread Gayathri Sundar
*To:* openssl-users@openssl.org *Subject:* RE: openssl on a home LAN ** ** Hi, Gayathri, ** ** I appreciate the clarification. It was helpful, yes. I think my confusion stemmed from the fact that in the past while installing one or another program, I found it to say that “OpenSSL must

RE: openssl on a home LAN

2012-09-13 Thread Charles Mills
@openssl.org Subject: Re: openssl on a home LAN Charles, I think he wanted to use SSL for data transfer between 2 computers. What you have used is the PKI infrastructure. Infact even for SSL there are sample client and server codes in the examples folder, but that does not hook into your

Re: openssl on a home LAN

2012-09-12 Thread Gayathri Sundar
PM *To:* openssl-users@openssl.org *Subject:* RE: openssl on a home LAN ** ** Right. Are you an application developer? In other words, do you write computer programs? Does the following mean anything to you? ** ** int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { printf(“hello

RE: openssl on a home LAN

2012-09-12 Thread Charles Mills
you again. P.S. The name is Charles. Charles From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org [mailto:owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org] On Behalf Of John A. Wallace Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 6:37 PM To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: RE: openssl on a home LAN Charlie, Frankly, you

RE: openssl on a home LAN

2012-09-12 Thread John A. Wallace
won't bother you again. P.S. The name is Charles. Charles From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org [mailto:owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org] On Behalf Of John A. Wallace Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 6:37 PM To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: RE: openssl on a home LAN Charlie

RE: openssl on a home LAN

2012-09-12 Thread Charles Mills
Thanks. Take care. Good luck with your home LAN. Charles From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org [mailto:owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org] On Behalf Of John A. Wallace Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 9:51 AM To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: RE: openssl on a home LAN No problem

RE: openssl on a home LAN

2012-09-12 Thread John A. Wallace
Subject: Re: openssl on a home LAN Hi John, I definitely do not agree with charles's email, but what I think he meant is, you need to write programs to use OpenSSL. Its an installable library, which you need to invoke from your application using its exposed APIs and recompile your code, link

openssl on a home LAN

2012-09-11 Thread John A. Wallace
I am trying to figure out whether there is any point in using openssl on a home LAN between two computers. Would that improve on security in any way? Would I be limited in the types of OS connections? I mean, could I connect Windows with Linux? Also, if I want to make such a connection between two

Re: openssl on a home LAN

2012-09-11 Thread Gayathri Sundar
...@verizon.netwrote: ** I am trying to figure out whether there is any point in using openssl on a home LAN between two computers. Would that improve on security in any way? Would I be limited in the types of OS connections? I mean, could Iconnect Windows with Linux? Also, if I want to make

RE: openssl on a home LAN

2012-09-11 Thread Charles Mills
Of John A. Wallace Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 9:36 AM To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: openssl on a home LAN I am trying to figure out whether there is any point in using openssl on a home LAN between two computers. Would that improve on security in any way? Would I be limited

Re: openssl on a home LAN

2012-09-11 Thread Ted Byers
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:36 PM, John A. Wallace jw72...@verizon.netwrote: ** I am trying to figure out whether there is any point in using openssl on a home LAN between two computers. Would that improve on security in any way? Would I be limited in the types of OS connections? I mean

RE: openssl on a home LAN

2012-09-11 Thread John A. Wallace
12:52 PM To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: RE: openssl on a home LAN Do you write computer programs, or are you a home user of personal computers? If you don't write computer programs, then using OpenSSL at the level addressed by this mailing list is not what you are looking

RE: openssl on a home LAN

2012-09-11 Thread John A. Wallace
@openssl.org Subject: Re: openssl on a home LAN On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:36 PM, John A. Wallace jw72...@verizon.net wrote: I am trying to figure out whether there is any point in using openssl on a home LAN between two computers. Would that improve on security in any way? Would I be limited

RE: openssl on a home LAN

2012-09-11 Thread Charles Mills
A. Wallace Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 12:07 PM To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: RE: openssl on a home LAN Hi. I am not trying to be mean or something, but you may want to take a look at this page: http://www.openssl.org/support/community.html Focusing on the part

RE: openssl on a home LAN

2012-09-11 Thread Erik Tkal
You don't use OpenSSL on a home LAN, you use applications or OS layers that might use OpenSSL in their implementation. In general OpenSSL is a toolkit that provides cryptography and SSL/TLS implementations. I think you have to be more specific about what you mean by phrases like connect

RE: openssl on a home LAN

2012-09-11 Thread John A. Wallace
-users@openssl.org Subject: RE: openssl on a home LAN Right. Are you an application developer? In other words, do you write computer programs? Does the following mean anything to you? int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { printf(hello world\n); return 0; } Or alternatively, are you a Web