Re: How works the 'SSLPassPhraseDialog'

2000-03-28 Thread Jan Meijer
> Yes, you are missing something. The message before mine, to be more > specific. A subscriber asked how to run Apache automatically (probably > from his rc.d or init.d scripts), and was answered that he should > write a program to supply this password to Apache. So I responded with > my message,

Re: How works the 'SSLPassPhraseDialog'

2000-03-25 Thread R. DuFresne
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Eli Marmor wrote: > Jan Meijer wrote: > > > > > A hacker can copy your key, no matter if it is encrypted or not; It > > > will just spend one more minute for him. > > > > Perhaps I'm missing something here, but if your key is encrypted and the > > only way to decrypt it is

Re: How works the 'SSLPassPhraseDialog'

2000-03-24 Thread Eli Marmor
Jan Meijer wrote: > > > A hacker can copy your key, no matter if it is encrypted or not; It > > will just spend one more minute for him. > > Perhaps I'm missing something here, but if your key is encrypted and the > only way to decrypt it is to actally enter the passphrase manually (e.g. no > au

Re: How works the 'SSLPassPhraseDialog'

2000-03-24 Thread Jan Meijer
> A hacker can copy your key, no matter if it is encrypted or not; It > will just spend one more minute for him. Perhaps I'm missing something here, but if your key is encrypted and the only way to decrypt it is to actally enter the passphrase manually (e.g. no automatic start-up) the hacker can

Re: How works the 'SSLPassPhraseDialog'

2000-03-23 Thread Jan Dries
Francisco Javier Martínez Martínez wrote: > > Hello. > Where and how I put the two arguments 'the first is of the form > ``servername:portnumber'', the second is either ``RSA'' or ``DSA''', It is > not clear almost for me and I wonder that there must be some people more. > And as you saids this i

RE: How works the 'SSLPassPhraseDialog'

2000-03-23 Thread Steve Fairhead
Jan Dries said: >> For example in C: int main(int argc, char** argv) { printf("xx"); // replace xx with your actual password. return 0; } << Minor point, and perhaps off-topic here, but I'd strongly suggest avoiding such uses of the printf statement in general. Use the puts() sta

RE: How works the 'SSLPassPhraseDialog'

2000-03-23 Thread Francisco Javier Martínez Martínez
tter due that the private password could be compromised, if you would please explain (with an example if possible) how it works. Thanks you in advance. - Original Message - From: Ralf S. Engelschall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 8:3

Re: How works the 'SSLPassPhraseDialog'

2000-03-22 Thread Eli Marmor
In short, as I claim always, there is nothing good in PEM, because you can't eat the cake and have it. You either have an un-encrypted file, or you have an encrypted file - but with another program that outputs this password. And you don't have to look for this program - just look at the appropria

Re: How works the 'SSLPassPhraseDialog'

2000-03-22 Thread Jan Dries
The program is any program that outputs the password to the standard output, that is to the screen. For example in C: int main(int argc, char** argv) { printf("xx"); // replace xx with your actual password. return 0; } Another possibility is to use an executable script that just

Re: How works the 'SSLPassPhraseDialog'

2000-03-22 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000, Francisco Javier Martínez Martínez wrote: > I had noticed that I could give the password of the private key fo the > server with the 'SSLPassPhraseDialog' with no human-interactive in the > server start up. With the directive 'exec:/path/to/program' but I don´t had > any ide