RE: Question on OpenSSL encryption

2012-01-09 Thread Mohan Radhakrishnan
I have struggled with SSL/TLS in the past. Good list of books. I checked amazon's table of contents and it looks like Joshua Davies has written a more comprehensive book with lots of code. Clearly it seems to me to be a better book with good reviews. Rolf Oppliger's book is more than

SSL documentation

2011-10-18 Thread Mohan Radhakrishnan
Hi, Is there any material available that shows flows of one-way/two-ssl and different types of CA architectures ? We use two-way SSL and generate CSR's and update expired certificates and we are aware of the basic points. I have browsed the NIST website. Thanks, Mohan

RE: Replace renewed intermediate certificate in the keystore chain: in Java

2011-05-15 Thread Mohan Radhakrishnan
chain: in Java From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org On Behalf Of Mohan Radhakrishnan Sent: Friday, 13 May, 2011 00:35 So I tried that procedure. If you export your existing leaf cert, and concatenate it with the new intermediate and import that combination, it will work. 1. If my

RE: Replace renewed intermediate certificate in the keystore chain: in Java

2011-05-15 Thread Mohan Radhakrishnan
I also saw this message Top-level certificate in reply: Other certificate details are printed ... is not trusted. Install reply anyway? [no]: yes Certificate reply was installed in keystore Thanks, Mohan -Original Message- From: Mohan Radhakrishnan Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 9:43

RE: Replace renewed intermediate certificate in the keystore chain

2011-05-12 Thread Mohan Radhakrishnan
in the keystore chain From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org On Behalf Of Mohan Radhakrishnan Sent: Thursday, 12 May, 2011 00:04 I think I have been able to replace only the intermediate certificate which has a different validity period. I believe this can be done because what the intermediate

RE: Replace renewed intermediate certificate in the keystore chain

2011-05-12 Thread Mohan Radhakrishnan
- From: Mohan Radhakrishnan Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 9:28 AM To: 'openssl-users@openssl.org' Subject: RE: Replace renewed intermediate certificate in the keystore chain Hi, Actually the procedure is similar 1. Use Keytool and convert JKS to PKCS12. 2. Use OpenSSL to convert PKCS12 contents

Replace renewed intermediate certificate in the keystore chain

2011-05-11 Thread Mohan Radhakrishnan
Hi, I have checked my keystore and truststore and the intermediate certificate alone is going to expire. I have received a renewed intermediate pem. I believe it is common practice to just replace an expiring intermediate certificate instead of the root. The root will expire in2025. I have

RE: Replace renewed intermediate certificate in the keystore chain

2011-05-11 Thread Mohan Radhakrishnan
-Original Message- From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org [mailto:owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 12:47 PM To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: Re: Replace renewed intermediate certificate in the keystore chain On 05/10/11 11:03 PM, Mohan

Re: Windows Certificate Store with OpenSSL Certificate

2010-09-07 Thread Mohan Radhakrishnan
Hi, Have a question. Is this the Windows native store for CA certificates ? Which MS help doc. are you referring ? We want a secure storage facility for all our certificates but we don't to buy a separate product. Thanks, Mohan On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Dongsheng Song

Re: Certificate roll

2010-08-20 Thread Mohan Radhakrishnan
at 6:24 AM, Mohan Radhakrishnan radhakrishnan.mo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John,               Yes. We do use SSL certificates. You can consider me a newbie. I am just trying to understand the ways to roll an intermediate or any other certificate that is going to expire soon without causing

Certificate roll

2010-08-19 Thread Mohan Radhakrishnan
Hi, Is there any material that shows how to roll to new certificates using OpenSSL ? I am looking for a test case to understand how this works. Anyone know about this ? Thanks, Mohan __ OpenSSL Project

Re: Certificate roll

2010-08-19 Thread Mohan Radhakrishnan
am trying to roll to a new certificate without bringing down my java application. Thanks, Mohan On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 2:11 PM, John Doe jd...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Mohan Radhakrishnan radhakrishnan.mo...@gmail.com           Is there any material that shows  how to roll to new certificates

Various forms of two-way SSL

2010-07-10 Thread Mohan Radhakrishnan
Hi, Two-way SSL is sometimes very confusing. I know that a keystore and a truststore are always involved in two-way SSL communication. Are there various forms of two-way SSL ? 1. We want to open a server socket and also act as a client. 2. Similary the server also can be a client because

Re: Windows Certificate Store Private Key

2010-06-26 Thread Mohan Radhakrishnan
Hi, Please ignore if this question belongs else where but it looks like the OP is storing and retrieving SSL certificate from a Windows store. I have been looking for ways to use the Windows store to secure SSL certificates and keys and SFTP keys. Is windows or any other method recommended

Compare two certificate chains

2010-01-19 Thread Mohan Radhakrishnan
Hi, Are there any options in OpenSSL to compare two certificate chains based on some parameters. Could the comparison parameters be fingerprints, validity, algorithm and other features like CRL url's ? Thanks, mohan __

Cipher suite not available

2009-12-04 Thread Mohan Radhakrishnan
Hi, We see this message no available certificates or key corresponding to the cipher suites even before establishing a handshake. It is a mutual handshake. So keystores and truststores are there on both sides. Algorithms are RSA. Could this be caused due to a RSA bit size mismatch ? Would

Re: Cipher suite not available

2009-12-04 Thread Mohan Radhakrishnan
Possibly not. I meant that there could be 3 problems 1. Algorithm mismatch 2. Certificate imported in an incorrect keystore. 3. No trusted certificate chain. Trying to home in on one of the problems. Thanks, Mohan On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Mohan Radhakrishnan radhakrishnan.mo

Re: Cipher suite not available

2009-12-04 Thread Mohan Radhakrishnan
...@princetonpayments.com wrote: From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org On Behalf Of Mohan Radhakrishnan Sent: Friday, 04 December, 2009 05:54      We see this message no available certificates or key corresponding to the cipher suites even before establishing a handshake. It is a mutual handshake. So

CRL's

2009-10-04 Thread Mohan Radhakrishnan
Hi, I have a CA-signed certificate chain and whenever the SSL handshake is going on I see 'UnparseableException' related to CRL URL's. This particular URL seems to point to the CA's LDAP. What exactly is going on here ? The handshake succeeds but I am trying to understand if this is an

.pem certificate loading issue

2009-08-27 Thread Mohan Radhakrishnan
I have an ASCII text file with a chain of certificates. I had earlier sent a CSR and got these certificates back from the CA. When I opened the ASCII file I see some text before and after ---BEGIN CERTIFICATE-- and --END CERTIFICATE-- I removed this test because they were file names like

Re: .pem certificate loading issue

2009-08-27 Thread Mohan Radhakrishnan
What is the link between the existing key's alias and the alias used while importing the CA-root and sub-root certificates ? The CA-root and sub-root certificates have been imported with new aliases. The old alias throws an error. Thanks, Mohan On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Mohan

Re: .pem certificate loading issue

2009-08-27 Thread Mohan Radhakrishnan
Not it does not look like I need OpenSSL. The following Java command could import the entire chain. keytool -import -alias visaftpsflux -file visacertificateedited.cer -trustcacerts -keystore FSSNABMAPSVISA.jks -storepass password Further testing is required. Mohan On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at