Re: [jdev] manifesto DANE does not cut it

2013-11-18 Thread Tony Finch
Ralf Skyper Kaiser sky...@thc.org wrote: The user has to trust ALL keys and not just the single ROOT KEY. That's true, but the amount of trust you have to put in high-level DNSSEC keys is relatively limited. DNSSEC is aware of zone cuts, and high-level keys cannot authenticate domain names

Re: [jdev] IPv6 readyness?

2008-04-18 Thread Tony Finch
on 4-only and 6-only networks then you need a dual-stack server. The more interesting problem (which Tony Finch pointed out a while back) is that on a SRV lookup, you get the A/ records for free in the additional section. But if you only get one or other, you can't assume that the other

Re: [jdev] SRP

2008-04-04 Thread Tony Finch
On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Jonathan Dickinson wrote: has anyone considered the SRP (Secure Remote Password) protocol? It's unpopular because it's patented. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dotat.at/ VIKING NORTH UTSIRE: SOUTH OR SOUTHWEST VEERING NORTHWEST 5 TO 7, OCCASIONALLY

Re: [jdev] JABBERSTUDIO NOTICE -- SITE DEMISE

2007-03-14 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: Nicolas V�rit� wrote: What about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_applications_using_Jabber ? I know of UnclassifiedNewsBoard, FlySpray, phpBB3, GForge, LibreSource... Do you know more? Zimbra, Zabbix, Jaiku, Twitter, etc. ... Joost ...

Re: [jdev] jabber aliases?

2006-06-19 Thread Tony Finch
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Igor Goryachev wrote: Could you please explain this moment a bit wider? It might be important for me. It's from control theory. In an open loop control system I just send the system messages to tell it how to behave, whereas in a closed loop system I get messages back so I

Re: [jdev] cert handling in xmpp server implementations

2006-05-25 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, 24 May 2006, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: I am working with a certification authority on adding XMPP support to the certificates they issue. Has anyone written a straightforward description of how to generate a proper XMPP cert with all of the id-on-xmppAddr stuff using OpenSSL? Given

Re: [jdev] MD5 auth problem

2006-05-25 Thread Tony Finch
On Thu, 25 May 2006, Dave Cridland wrote: Consider the case where the server is compromised. A client compromise is much more likely :-) If you use DIGEST-MD5, then the attacker only has a plaintext equivalent good enough to authenticate with the compromised server, and cannot obtain

Re: [jdev] cert handling in xmpp server implementations

2006-05-25 Thread Tony Finch
On Thu, 25 May 2006, Jonathan Siegle wrote: Tony Finch said the following on 5/25/06 8:08 AM: Has anyone written a straightforward description of how to generate a proper XMPP cert with all of the id-on-xmppAddr stuff using OpenSSL? You can put whatever OIDs in the csr. The CA

Re: [jdev] cert handling in xmpp server implementations

2006-05-25 Thread Tony Finch
On Thu, 25 May 2006, Justin Karneges wrote: And if you're wondering how to do it in code, have a look at the qca-openssl plugin from the QCA project: http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/kdesupport/qca/plugins/qca-openssl/qca-openssl.cpp?rev=540405view=auto Search for 'XMPP' in there. Cool,

[jdev] generating XMPP certs with OpenSSL

2006-05-25 Thread Tony Finch
Here's an example of an OpenSSL configuration file that appears to generate the right kind of CSRs and self-signed certs. Note that you need OpenSSL 0.9.8 or newer. oid_section = new_oids [ new_oids ] # RFC 3920 section 5.1.1 defines this OID xmppAddr = 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.8.5 [ req ]

Re: [jdev] How to handle SRV lookups when the root domain is referenced

2006-05-04 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, 3 May 2006, Matthias Wimmer wrote: The s2s component in jabberd 1.4.4 will merely ignore the . entry. It will try to finde a A record for . and as this does not resolve skip to the next resolved entry, if there are entries with lower priority for the same service. That's really bad.

Re: [jdev] virtual hosting and certificate checking

2006-03-03 Thread Tony Finch
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Jesus Cea wrote: In current TLS, client gives the host it is trying to connect, BEFORE negociating crypto. So if you are using a modern webserver and a modern browser, you can share the IP. I just don't remember if this feature is present in TLS 1.0 or in the current

Re: [jdev] virtual hosting and certificate checking

2006-03-03 Thread Tony Finch
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Justin Karneges wrote: IMO, a better way would be to use RFC 2817, which allows upgrading a plaintext HTTP connection to TLS dynamically. It works essentially the same way as XMPP's starttls. Sadly, no one actually uses this great spec. I get the impression that that is

Re: [jdev] Jabber-ID email header

2006-03-01 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. The protocol standard is XMPP (and not Jabber) However the term that RFC 3920 uses for an XMPP address is Jabber Identifier or JID. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dotat.at/ FISHER: CYCLONIC 5 TO 7. SNOW SHOWERS. GOOD

Re: [jdev] virtual hosting and certificate checking

2006-03-01 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: 2. Clients open TCP connections to shakespeare.lit (rather than denmark.lit etc.) but specify the desired virtual hostname in the 'to' address of the stream header, then check the certificate presented by the server as either 'shakespeare.lit' or

Re: [jdev] Thoughts on Interplanetary Jabber System ?

2005-11-19 Thread Tony Finch
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Ulrich Staudinger wrote: i am just wondering if someone expenses thoughts on an interplanetary IM system, similar to the interplanetary Mail system: Isn't instant messaging fundamentally incompatible with 30 minute round-trip times? Tony. -- f.a.n.finch [EMAIL

subdomains, was Re: [jdev] SASL EXTERNAL for s2s in jabberd14

2005-11-07 Thread Tony Finch
On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Matthias Wimmer wrote: Justin Karneges schrieb: - If the certificate is for example.com, do you accept this certificate to be used for service.example.com as well? Currently I don't. But I am not sure if this is correct/intended by RFC3920. You shouldn't. And I

Re: [jdev] Problem Connecting to GoogleTalk using my custom client

2005-10-20 Thread Tony Finch
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Mukil Kesavan wrote: SENT: stream:stream to=talk.google.com http://talk.google.com xmlns=jabber:client xmlns:stream=http://etherx.jabber.org/streams; RECEIVED: stream:stream from=talk.google.com http://talk.google.com id=E6DB0DD7