Re: question on static/dynamic linking engines

2004-07-06 Thread Kevin Stefanik
On Monday 05 July 2004 01:24 am, Geoff Thorpe wrote: > On June 24, 2004 12:49 pm, Kevin Stefanik wrote: > [snip] > > > > However I'm > > > pretty confident the 0.9.7 use of ERR_get_implementation() is bogus. > > [snip] > > > Linking the openssl engine to libcrypto.so shared library for 0.9.8 > > wo

RE: Disabling for FIPS mode, take 2

2004-07-06 Thread Marquess, Steve Mr JMLFDC
Title: RE: Disabling for FIPS mode, take 2 On Friday, July 02, 2004 4:52 PM Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: >> Two related patches I posted earlier are for a FIPS specific default >> ciphersuite (ssl_ciph.c) and SHA1 instead of MD5 for PEM passphrases >> (pem_lib.c).  Any additional feedback on th

RE: Disabling for FIPS mode, take 2

2004-07-06 Thread Chris Brook
As far as I understand it, FIPS 140-2 requires that you use a FIPS approved RNG for generating keys (if that's what you meant below). This includes ANSI X9.31 and FIPS 186-2, neither of which of course are supported by OpenSSL which has its own PRNG. You might want to look at adding these if the

Re: Disabling for FIPS mode, take 2

2004-07-06 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004, Marquess, Steve Mr JMLFDC wrote: > On Friday, July 02, 2004 4:52 PM Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: > > >OpenSSL already supports various private key formats which only use FIPS > >approved algorithms, for example PKCS#8 with PKCS#5 v2.0. That means that one > >solution is to just

RE: Disabling for FIPS mode, take 2

2004-07-06 Thread Marquess, Steve Mr JMLFDC
Title: RE: Disabling for FIPS mode, take 2 On Tuesday, July 06, 2004 Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: >> I was able to convert OpenSSH PEM format keys to PKCS#8 easily enough using >> openssl pkcs8, but how do I convert the PKCS#8 back to the original format? >> > >Well the first way is to do noth