No. Your question doesn't make any sense, so folks are just trying to guess
what you *might* mean.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Auteria Wally Winzer Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: Setting the bit to 128
> So, in a nutshell openssl doesn't have the ability to create 128-bit
> self-signed CA's?
>
> - WW Jr.
>
> Dr S N Henson wrote:
>
> > "Auteria Wally Winzer Jr." wrote:
> > >
> > > The goal:
> > >
> > > To generate a 128-bit self-signed CA.
> > >
> >
> > That has little to do with the CA certificate and more to do with the
> > software being used. If clients can only make 40 bit SSL connections
> > then the clients probably only support 40 bit SSL (the old export
> > crippled software) and needs upgrading to 128 bits.
> >
> > Well actually that's not the whole story. Some certificates signed by a
> > special CA can enable 40 bit clients to use 128 bit connections but you
> > can't readily create those yourself because they wont be signed by the
> > (hard coded) special CA.
> >
> > Steve.
> > --
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