Re: How can I tell what key strength is used to negotiate HTTPS content encryption keys?

2009-08-21 Thread Ian G
Hello Justin, On 20/08/2009 17:45, Justin wells wrote: Hi Ian, Thanks for your reply! It's very enlightening, and I do agree that in the real world there are a lot of issues other than the cryptographic issues. Just to be sure, I am not suggesting that the weakest link should be as strong as

Re: How can I tell what key strength is used to negotiate HTTPS content encryption keys?

2009-08-21 Thread Ellen Chan
Hi again Ian, Yes I can appreciate that there are priorities and you're reluctant to get into something overly complex. It's probably wise then to drop any attempt to have the application sort out which is the weaker link and instead just bubble that information up to the user, so that they can

Re: XPCOM installation folders when using dependent DLLs?

2009-08-21 Thread Neil
Polly wrote: Neil wrote: Polly wrote: Tom, you asked what third party DLLs I'm using -- it's the openssl DLLs ssleay32.dll and libeay32.dll. One possible alternative might be to rewrite your code to use NSS? Thanks for the suggestion. As it happens, my requirements were

Re: XPCOM installation folders when using dependent DLLs?

2009-08-21 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2009-08-21 12:39 PDT, Neil wrote: Polly wrote: Neil wrote: Polly wrote: Tom, you asked what third party DLLs I'm using -- it's the openssl DLLs ssleay32.dll and libeay32.dll. One possible alternative might be to rewrite your code to use NSS? Thanks for the suggestion. As it

Re: Cert extension decode issues

2009-08-21 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2009-08-20 07:27 PDT, Brendan wrote: I am having trouble decoding a custom extension that I created using Openssl. I have created the templates for nss but I am receiving a bad der error number from the decoder. As far as I can tell the der is correct and can be parsed by openssl commands