Re: Comparison of OpenSSL and NSS

2008-07-29 Thread Rainer Gerhards
On Jul 27, 2:17 am, Nelson Bolyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Stenberg wrote, On 2008-07-26 13:45: > > > As a user of OpenSSL, NSS, yassl and GnuTLS I can certainly agree that > > GnuTLS has flaws in its API but NSS most certainly also has flaws as well > > _and_ notable missing features t

Re: verifying peer identity during handshake

2008-05-23 Thread Rainer Gerhards
> I forgot to mention: guessing is good, verifying is better. I'll bring > up this question on the syslog WG mailing list. I got the answer right from the source: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/syslog/current/msg01915.html Rainer ___ dev-tech-cry

Re: verifying peer identity during handshake

2008-05-22 Thread Rainer Gerhards
On May 23, 8:34 am, Rainer Gerhards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 20, 10:38 pm, Badra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > > Fingerprint-based is not secure within TLS, not specified anywhere, and it > > is an hack. > > Well, it actually is (somewha

Re: verifying peer identity during handshake

2008-05-22 Thread Rainer Gerhards
On May 20, 10:38 pm, Badra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Fingerprint-based is not secure within TLS, not specified anywhere, and it > is an hack. Well, it actually is (somewhat), right there in the PSK RFC, section 1.1: If the main goal is to avoid Public-Key Infrastructures (PKIs),

Re: verifying peer identity during handshake

2008-05-22 Thread Rainer Gerhards
Hi Nelson, many thanks for your very useful reply. Comments inline... On May 22, 12:41 am, Nelson B Bolyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rainer Gerhards wrote, > > >>> [snip] I would like to authenticate > >>> remote peers via custom authentication laye

Re: verifying peer identity during handshake

2008-05-22 Thread Rainer Gerhards
On May 23, 12:39 am, Julien R Pierre - Sun Microsystems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nelson, > > Nelson B Bolyard wrote: > > >>> Right now there is no such callback available in NSS' libssl to do what > >>> you want. > > > Maybe I misunderstand the request, but I believe that libSSL offers exactly

Re: verifying peer identity during handshake

2008-05-21 Thread Rainer Gerhards
Hi Julien, thanks for your reply, much appreciated. Coments inline below... On May 20, 10:18 pm, Julien R Pierre - Sun Microsystems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rainer, > > my apologies for not reading through all the docs. I have a hopefully > > quick question and would like some short feedback

Re: getting started with TLS development vis NSS

2008-04-08 Thread Rainer Gerhards
Thank for the feedback, much appreciated :) On Apr 7, 7:27 pm, "Wan-Teh Chang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Rainer, > > NSPR threads are just POSIX threads with NSPR thread IDs. > NSPR assigns NSPR thread IDs on demand to POSIX threads > not created by NSPR. So your POSIX threads can coexist >

Re: getting started with TLS development vis NSS

2008-04-06 Thread Rainer Gerhards
Hi, thanks for your reply. It's actually good news for me. Some thoughts inline below... On Apr 5, 3:12 am, Nelson B Bolyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > NSS depends on NSPR, and attempting to divorce NSS from NSPR is way more > work than (I think) you want to attempt to do. (Quite a few have t

getting started with TLS development vis NSS

2008-04-04 Thread Rainer Gerhards
Hi there, I hope I don't bother you too much with a very basic question. I am the author or rsyslog - http://www.rsyslog.com - a syslogd replacement aimed, among others, at security. I am about to implement native TLS support for it. I was referred to either NSS or GnuTLS and have so far settled o