Re: [openssl-users] Vulnerability Disclosures

2015-07-11 Thread Jeffrey Walton
I wanted to suggest that when notifying of new vulnerabilities, in addition to the severity level, information is also provided about how widespread the issue is expected to be. For example, the statement might say this high severity bug is expected to affect around 70% of cases”, or for

Re: [openssl-users] Vulnerability Disclosures

2015-07-11 Thread Salz, Rich
I wanted to suggest that when notifying of new vulnerabilities, in addition to the severity level, information is also provided about how widespread the issue is expected to be. I'd be concerned about doing that. While this one seemed pretty rare -- only folks running a release less than

[openssl-users] FIPS mode entropy callback for rsa key

2015-07-11 Thread choliz
Hello, I currently have a FIPS module where I'm trying to add entropy to RSA key generation pair. I've overwritten the callbacks within my application but I'm not seeing them being executed when I generate an RSA key. When I call RSA_generate_key_ex shouldn't my entropy callback function be

Re: [openssl-users] beginner needs advice on data signature/verification

2015-07-11 Thread Michael Wojcik
In Marco's original description, the file is created by a trusted system and then transmitted to the client. Then, later, the client transmits it to the server, which verifies the contents. If the file is signed by the creating system, it doesn't matter if the client is compromised. A