Documentation

1999-01-19 Thread sameer
So, I'm lame, and I haven't been paying too much attention to this list. I realized today, however, that it would be legit for me to work on documentation for OpenSSL. So what's the status on documentation? I'm thinking it would be appropriate to setup another CVS repo

[Documentation]

2000-09-19 Thread Lutz Jaenicke
Appended two corrections, one extension and one new manpage. Lutz -- Lutz Jaenicke [EMAIL PROTECTED] BTU Cottbus http://www.aet.TU-Cottbus.DE/personen/jaenicke/ Lehrstuhl Allgemeine Elektrotechnik Tel. +49 355 69-4129 Universitaet

Documentation suggestions

2002-10-01 Thread Cory Albrecht
Hello, I have two suggestions about the documentation. First suggestion, a minor one about INSTALL.W32. Every time I go to change ./ms/do_ms.bat so I can enable debugging symbols I change the line perl util\mk1mf.pl no-asm VC-WIN32 >ms\nt.mak I add 'debug' in last place

Documentation patch

2004-05-06 Thread Jim Schneider
Here's a patch for d2i_SSL_SESSION.pod, pointing out a pitfall when using i2d_SSL_SESSIONdiff -U3 -r1.1.1.2 d2i_SSL_SESSION.pod --- doc/ssl/d2i_SSL_SESSION.pod 2002/07/30 18:26:08 1.1.1.2 +++ doc/ssl/d2i_SSL_SESSION.pod 2004/05/05 22:06:44 @@ -20,7 +20,10 @@ i2d_SSL_SESSION() transforms the SSL_S

Documentation cleanup

1998-12-29 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
While I'm currently on the way creating the first cut of a real documentation set, I recognized that the stuff under doc/ is really a horrible mess, 80% obsolete and more a joke than everything else. So my idea is to assemble all the various .doc files into a single doc/ssleay.txt file.

Re: Documentation

1999-01-19 Thread Rodney Thayer
Good point. There are certainly several folk in the US who would/could help with that. At 01:09 AM 1/19/99 -0800, you wrote: > So, I'm lame, and I haven't been paying too much attention to >this list. I realized today, however, that it would be legit for me to >work o

RE: Documentation

1999-01-20 Thread salzr
t proof; and (c) starting down a slippery slope that OpenSSL really should avoid -- setting up mechanisms to help "enforce" every participating country's crypto export rules? I totally agree that "writing documentation" should be foisted off to us whenever possible, free

Re: Documentation

1999-01-20 Thread Ben Laurie
sameer wrote: > > So, I'm lame, and I haven't been paying too much attention to > this list. I realized today, however, that it would be legit for me to > work on documentation for OpenSSL. So what's the status on > documentation? I'm thinking it wo

Re: Documentation

1999-01-20 Thread Ben Laurie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I don't understand why US people can't be given access to the source > tree. I didn't understand that, either, but it didn't seem worth quibbling, because there are other reasons, anyway... > Is it because of a desire to "prove" that nobody from the US exported > so

Re: Documentation

1999-01-21 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
nnot commit to the non-documentation stuff (export!), but access to openssl/doc/ sounds good to me, too. > Is it because of a desire to "prove" that nobody from the US exported > source code? Surely that's (a) too big a hammer (we can, e.g., con- > tribute to the ASN1 engine

Re: Documentation

1999-01-21 Thread Ben Laurie
e source tree in general? Sure, we should perhaps make sure they cannot > commit to the non-documentation stuff (export!), but access to openssl/doc/ > sounds good to me, too. > > > Is it because of a desire to "prove" that nobody from the US exported > > source code?

Re: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Sameer Parekh
rticipating country's > crypto export rules? > > I totally agree that "writing documentation" should be foisted off to > us whenever possible, freeing up those capable of doing crypto code to > do so. > /r$ > > >

Re: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: [...] >> IMHO it's ok to not give them access to the non-documentation stuff, because >> this way we don't have to make sure people don't violate their export laws. > I'm totall

Re: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Anonymous
Ben Laurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm totally against this. We have no responsibility to enforce the USG's > stupid export laws, and I see no reason we should take that > responsibility on. Once the library contains crypto code of American origin, it is covered by the American reexport reg

Re: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Ben Laurie
Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: > > [...] > >> IMHO it's ok to not give them access to the non-documentation stuff, because > >> this way we don't have to make sure people

RE: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Jon Parry-McCulloch
>Once the library contains crypto code of American origin, it is >covered by the American reexport regulations. That means that everyone >who distributes it internationally will violate US law. This is true, but who outside the US gives a

Re: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Ben Laurie
Anonymous wrote: > > Ben Laurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm totally against this. We have no responsibility to enforce the USG's > > stupid export laws, and I see no reason we should take that > > responsibility on. > > Once the library contains crypto code of American origin, it is >

Re: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: >> >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >> > Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> IMHO it's ok to not give them access to the non-documentatio

RE: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
From: Jon Parry-McCulloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Once the library contains crypto code of American origin, > it is > >covered by the American reexport regulations. That means > that everyone > >who distributes it internationally will violate US law. > >

Re: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Sameer Parekh
> > This is true, but who outside the US gives a damn? It's not just an issue for those outside the US. Its an issue for multinational companies that wish to ship strong cryptography products worldwide. If there's a company that does business in the US, then they won't be able to u

Re: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Sameer Parekh
> > b) US law doesn't apply to me (at least while I'm not in US territory) > or OpenSSL, AFAIK, regardless of the code's origin. > US law may not apply to you, but it applies to many of the people who are using OpenSSL outside the United States. If its your intention that multinationals

RE: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread salzr
> US law may not apply to you, but it applies to many of the >people who are using OpenSSL outside the United States. Hmm, is it your contention that if a US person exports crypto code, then the US govt will come after non-US citizens who uses that code? The export regulations say that US

Re: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Ben Laurie
Sameer Parekh wrote: > > > > > b) US law doesn't apply to me (at least while I'm not in US territory) > > or OpenSSL, AFAIK, regardless of the code's origin. > > > > US law may not apply to you, but it applies to many of the > people who are using OpenSSL outside the United States. If it

RE: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Sameer Parekh
At 11:08 AM 1/22/99 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> US law may not apply to you, but it applies to many of the >>people who are using OpenSSL outside the United States. > >Hmm, is it your contention that if a US person exports crypto code, >then the US govt will come after non-US citizens who u

Re: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Sameer Parekh
We may be misunderstanding each other. Let me outline my position in pieces so we can see where we agree and where we disagree, more specifically. a) I would like the OpenSSL project to protect the codebase from being polluted with export-restricted code, US or otherwise. b) I would lik

Re: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Ben Laurie
Sameer Parekh wrote: > > We may be misunderstanding each other. Let me outline my > position in pieces so we can see where we agree and where we > disagree, more specifically. > > a) I would like the OpenSSL project to protect the codebase from being > polluted with export-restricted cod

RE: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
salzr> The export regulations say that US persons can't export. They salzr> are silent on what happens after the code has gone offshore. I don't think that's quite correct. What it says is that strong encryption code can't be exported from the US, except to Canada. Thenationality of the person h

Re: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Dr Stephen Henson
Sameer Parekh wrote: > > d) The OpenSSL project should not allow US persons to contribute to > the OpenSSL source code. > This would be the easiest way to handle things but it might be regarded as over cautious. There are some non crypto areas of OpenSSL where US persons might be able to contr

Re: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Sameer Parekh
> > Examples would be certificate extension code, message digest algorithms > or stuff related to authentication only (e.g. DSS). > > Or do you think even contributions of this sort could cause problems? I beleive that this would be a problem because that would be a US person providing

Re: Documentation

1999-01-22 Thread Sameer Parekh
> My problem with this is that it requires the OpenSSL project to be aware > of export restrictions in other jurisdictions. If we really have to be > aware, then so be it, but I'd be _much_ happier if we could only worry > about our own. Can we not protect the codebase simply by asking that > peop

RE: Documentation

1999-01-23 Thread Rich Salz
> I don't think that's quite correct. What it says is that strong > encryption code can't be exported from the US, except to Canada. > Thenationality of the person has nothing to do with it. Otherwise, it > would just be for any company in the US to ask some foreign consultant > to come to the s

Re: Documentation

1999-01-23 Thread Ben Laurie
Sameer Parekh wrote: > > > b) I would like the OpenSSL project to require that all contributors > > > warrant that the code they are contributing does not violate export > > > controls. > > > > So long as _I_ don't have to collect these warranties, I can't see why > > this should be a problem. I d

Re: Documentation

1999-01-23 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
ben> I suspect that there are people around who are going to disagree on what ben> can and can't be exported, though, and I really am not at all sure how ben> we can judge who is correct. For starters, we already see one camp that ben> says "any source in OpenSSL is unexportable", and another that

Re: Documentation

1999-01-23 Thread Sameer Parekh
[good faith] > > OK. Is this explicitly stated somewhere, or is it an interpretation of > regs? Has it been tested in court? As far as I know it has not been tested in court. The regs on export restricted web sites *do* explicitly mention good faith effort. I think that the use of good f

Re: Documentation

1999-01-23 Thread Rich Salz
> I suspect that there are people around who are going to disagree on what > can and can't be exported, though, and I really am not at all sure how > we can judge who is correct. You can't. That's perhaps the biggest problem with the US export regulations: all the "interesting" cases are decided

Re: Documentation

1999-01-23 Thread Ben Laurie
Sameer Parekh wrote: > > Anyone got any suggestions as to how we resolve this? > > My suggestion is that we find a US export lawyer (I know a few > =) willing to provide the group with some advice pro bono, and the > group can create guidelines based on that advice. I'll go with that. Gi

RE: Documentation

1999-01-25 Thread salzr
> No. Its my contention that if a US person exports crypto code >illegally, >the US government will go after a US-related firm (i.e. a >multinational) >who uses that code internationally. This is based on statements from >government officials and discussions with export control attorneys. M

Re: Documentation

1999-01-25 Thread Sameer Parekh
OK, you have a good point. Let me try again. A US-related firm will not use illegally exported cryptography code for fear of stock market and government retribution. I have direct experience with large US-related firms for whom this has been an issue. > > No. Its my contention that if

RE: Documentation

1999-01-25 Thread salzr
> A US-related firm >will not use illegally exported cryptography code for fear of stock >market and government retribution. Okay, that makes sense to me. __ OpenSSL Project http://www.open

Re: Documentation

1999-01-26 Thread Clifford Heath
> My discussions have had other conclusions, saying they'd be "foolish" to go > after a big company. I think they were just trying to inti- > midate you. Perhaps. Not all multi-nationals are big however - Open Software Associates in such an example. We still want to be able to use OpenSSL witho

Re: Documentation

1999-01-28 Thread Simon Kenyon
On 22-Jan-99 Ben Laurie wrote: > Sameer Parekh wrote: >> >> We may be misunderstanding each other. Let me outline my >> position in pieces so we can see where we agree and where we >> disagree, more specifically. >> >> a) I would like the OpenSSL project to protect the codebase from bein

Documentation bug.

1999-03-15 Thread Jacques Supcik
Dear Developer, I found a "documentation" error by compiling openssl. in the Makefile.ssl file, one can read: # If you change the INSTALLTOP, make sure to also change the values # in crypto/location.h ... but I can't find the file crypto/location.h The INSTALL file seems m

OpenSSL documentation.

1999-12-26 Thread Manji, Amin
I'm just starting to work with SSL and openSSL. Is there any coherent documentation out there that might elucidate how openSSL can be used. Any example programs? Anything? Cheers. > Amin Manji > > EDCU IT CREDIT | FIRST Credit Suisse First Boston Securities (Japa

Openssl documentation

2000-02-16 Thread Tomi J. Nylund
Hello everybody, Do you know if there's any kind of documentation project going on for Openssl? I'd like to contribute to that. If there ain't is someone thinking of putting one together, I mean, it's almost comparable to medieval alchemy trying to do anything reasonable wit

Missing documentation

2005-06-28 Thread Karsten Ohme
functionality but it would not, if there would be a more user friendly alternative. Can somebody advice a alternative crypto and x509 library? The documentation on the web page is not enough, of course. There are documentation systems like doxygen which can generate the documentation. It will be a

Documentation question

2006-07-07 Thread authesserre samuel
Hi, I would like to know where I can find documentation on openssl implementation (not API use for programming others programs, I'm looking for openssl internals) I want to correct dtls implementation (I have already sent a little patch ;) ) and I want to understand implementation organiz

OpenSSL Documentation

2008-05-22 Thread Massimiliano Ziccardi
if OpenSSL documentation would be more complete. My question is: what about wiki, so that people using OpenSSL could add documentation as soon as they discover how undocumented functions works? Regards, Massimiliano Ziccardi

Openssl Documentation

2000-09-29 Thread Jeff Roberts
Is there any good documentation on which calls in which order a Telnet application should make for an SSL connection ? The documentation on the Openssl web site only lists the prototypes for each api call. I was taught a long time ago that a product without documentation is worthless. If

[Documentation] Corrections

2000-10-05 Thread Lutz Jaenicke
Hi! Two corrections: - c_rehash needs a directory as argument - Unlike all other items the BIO-layer can return "-2". Hence the correct classification of error return values is "<0" instead of "-1". Best regards, Lutz -- Lutz Jaenicke [EMAIL PROTECTED] BTU

Re: documentation

2000-10-24 Thread Lutz Jaenicke
(Just came back from hiking in the Harz mountains late yesterday evening.) On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:37:08PM -0700, john traenky wrote: > I read you too work on documentation. I would like to > join the work. How should I start? Should I gather > notes about SSLeay and OpenSSL and

Re: documentation

2000-10-26 Thread Lutz Jaenicke
0.9.6 already has excellent quality (counted by the number of serious bugs found since the release :-). A lot of serious work was been done by serious people to reach this state. The documentation must keep up with these standards :-) > If you agree, please reply. I will begin creatio ex > ni

Re: documentation

2000-10-26 Thread john traenky
; On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:37:08PM -0700, john > traenky wrote: > > I read you too work on documentation. I would > like to > > join the work. How should I start? Should I > gather > > notes about SSLeay and OpenSSL and create a user > guide > > draft? Who i

Re: documentation

2000-10-26 Thread Rich Salz
Lutz is right, there's lots of bad advice lurking on the email lists; openssl-dev is better than openssl-users. On the other hand, I think it will be easier to figure out who's right and who's not. Whenever you get conflicting feedback, or from someone you don't know, mark it off as "to be confi

Missing documentation

2009-03-18 Thread Victor B. Wagner
I've investigated lacks of documentation in the current OpenSSL snapshot. Method of investigation is quite simple 1. Run util/extract-names.pl on the all pod files in the doc/crypto and doc/ssl and produce sorted list of all function names referenced in the NAME sections. 2. Take lis

Missing documentation

2009-03-18 Thread Victor B. Wagner
I've investigated lacks of documentation in the current OpenSSL snapshot. Method of investigation is quite simple 1. Run util/extract-names.pl on the all pod files in the doc/crypto and doc/ssl and produce sorted list of all function names referenced in the NAME sections. 2. Take lis

Documentation on ENGINES

2004-02-04 Thread Jean Everson Martina
Hi all, I'm trying to develop some new algorithms to use with an openssl applications we have here. I'M studing about the ENGINE API, but there is so few documentations. I've already searched on the list history, but I can't see any documentation tha fits my needs.

Re: Documentation patch

2004-05-06 Thread Jim Schneider
On Thursday 06 May 2004 08:45, Jim Schneider wrote: > Here's a patch for d2i_SSL_SESSION.pod, pointing out a pitfall when using > i2d_SSL_SESSION Actually, that wasn't as clear as it should be - pp isn't getting clobbered, what it points to (*pp) is getting clobbered.

Re: Documentation bug.

1999-03-20 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > in the Makefile.ssl file, one can read: > # If you change the INSTALLTOP, make sure to also change the values > # in crypto/location.h > ... but I can't find the file crypto/location.h > The INSTALL file seems more correct and tell me to edit the crypt

"bug" in documentation

1999-04-09 Thread Steffen Dettmer
Hi, openssl-0.9.2b: docu about: keyUsage (PKIX key usage) takes the flags: . ./doc/openssl.txt (line 206): keyEncipherment, dataEncipherment, keyAgreement, keyCertSign, cRLCertSign I think this should read as: keyEnciphe

SV: Openssl documentation

2000-02-16 Thread Hellan,Kim KHE
Officially I don't think so. But check out http://www.columbia.edu/~ariel/ssleay/... which is the most comprehensive documentation I have found so far. Kim Hellan > -Oprindelig meddelelse- > Fra: Tomi J. Nylund [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sendt:16. februar 20

Minor documentation nit

2000-03-26 Thread Michael Attili
There is a minor discrepancy in the x509 command line switch that is used to delete extensions from a certificate. /doc/apps/x509.pod refers to the switch as: -clrext /apps/x509.c refers to the switch as: -crlext ^^ Mike Attili Amaxo, Inc.

Re: Missing documentation

2005-06-28 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
tions, the parameters and comments widerstand> in the code what is done are missing. We're well aware the documentation is lacking. We are adding some all the time. I wish we had the possibility to do *only* that for a while, but that's not what reality looks like. In the Open Sourc

Re: Missing documentation

2005-06-29 Thread Goetz Babin-Ebell
files, widerstand> explanations to the functions, the parameters and comments widerstand> in the code what is done are missing. We're well aware the documentation is lacking. We are adding some all the time. I wish we had the possibility to do *only* that for a while, but that's not wha

documentation. XML format

2006-06-27 Thread Dave Pawson
I've used a perl script to convert all the .pod documentation to XML, docbook format. Each is a chapter, wouldn't take much to build a wrapper which included them all in a 'book' Attached is an example. x509_new.pod in html format, from the xml. docbook to pdf is also avail

Re: Openssl Documentation

2000-09-29 Thread Jeffrey Altman
No. OpenSSL documents the OpenSSL API, not the Telnet Protocol. The Telnet START_TLS option is currently documented as an IETF Internet-Draft published by the TN3270E Working Group. > Is there any good documentation on which calls in which order a Telnet application >should make for

Re: Openssl Documentation

2000-09-29 Thread Ulf Moeller
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000, Jeff Roberts wrote: > I know where telnet is documented. Where is Openssl documented ? http://www.openssl.org/docs If you didn't know that, where did you get the source code and the address of this mailing list? > I.E. Where is SSL_connect() documented ?? http://www.op

Re: Openssl Documentation

2000-10-03 Thread Tom Biggs
At 01:10 PM 9/29/00 -0400, someone wrote: >... The documentation on the Openssl web site only lists the prototypes >for each api call. > >I was taught a long time ago that a product without documentation is >worthless. >If we have no documentation, we have nothing ! OK

documentation / examples pointers?

2000-11-28 Thread Alan
Hi there, new to the list, just wanted to *wave* :) Are there any good sources of documentation on openssl? The man page gives some information, and I've found some examples in the list archives, but not quite what I'm looking for. Basically I've been tasked to write a s

Documentation of SSL_get1_session()

2001-11-18 Thread shinagawa
Hi, I've found an explanation in the SSL on-line documentation that should be corrected. In http://www.openssl.org/docs/ssl/SSL_get_session.html#, "If the data is to be kept, SSL_get1_session() will increment the reference count and the session will stay in memory until explicitly

Possible documentation typo

2002-03-25 Thread Craig Davison
Hello. I'd like to report a possible documentation error in OpenSSL 0.9.6c... In the INSTALL.W32 file, the following is listed in the Tweaks section of the Visual C++ instructions: (line 79) There are various changes you can make to the Win32 compile environment. By default the library i

typo in documentation

2008-11-10 Thread balthasar . nuk
Just a small typo: --- doc/crypto/ripemd.pod~ 2006-10-27 21:59:48.0 + +++ doc/crypto/ripemd.pod 2008-11-08 23:13:22.0 + @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ unsigned char *md); int RIPEMD160_Init(RIPEMD160_CTX *c); - int RIPEMD160_Update(RIPEMD_CTX *c, const vo

[openssl.org #298] Documentation suggestions

2002-10-02 Thread Cory Albrecht via RT
Hello, I have two suggestions about the documentation. First suggestion, a minor one about INSTALL.W32. Every time I go to change ./ms/do_ms.bat so I can enable debugging symbols I change the line perl util\mk1mf.pl no-asm VC-WIN32 >ms\nt.mak I add 'debug' in last place

[openssl.org #298] Documentation suggestions

2002-10-04 Thread Richard Levitte via RT
[[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Wed Oct 2 10:07:43 2002]: > Hello, > > I have two suggestions about the documentation. > > First suggestion, a minor one about INSTALL.W32. Every time I go to > change ./ms/do_ms.bat so I can enable debugging symbols I change the > line > >

[openssl.org #298] Documentation suggestions

2002-12-13 Thread Richard Levitte via RT
[levitte - Fri Oct 4 14:32:48 2002]: > As for the POD files, I'll ponder a little more about your proposed > change. No time to get that into 0.9.7, I'll move this to 0.9.7a. -- Richard Levitte __ OpenSSL Project

[PATCH] EVP_SealInit documentation incorrect

2003-01-11 Thread Nils Rennebarth
Either implementation or documentation of the EVP_SealInit function is incorrect as the iv Parameter is an output parameter not an input parameter of the function. 0.9.6g and 0.9.7 both have this inconsistency but since the C-code had been updated in 0.9.7 and the documentation had not, I decided

[openssl.org #882] Documentation patch

2004-05-07 Thread Jim Schneider via RT
Here's a patch for d2i_SSL_SESSION.pod, pointing out a pitfall when using i2d_SSL_SESSION __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: "bug" in documentation

1999-04-10 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > openssl-0.9.2b: > docu about: > keyUsage (PKIX key usage) takes the flags: . > ./doc/openssl.txt (line 206): > keyEncipherment, dataEncipherment, keyAgreement, keyCertSign, cRLCertSign >

Draft documentation for openssl.conf

1999-10-05 Thread Damien Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, After a particularly frustrating day of having to reverse-engineer the openssl.conf configuration file from the source code. I decided to write some documentation for it. I have attached a draft version, written with too little sleep and after

OpenSSL config file documentation

1999-12-27 Thread Damien Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please find attched the openssl.conf documentation that I wrote a while ago. I have tidied it up a little since I last posted it a few months back, but there have been no real changes. There was a bit of debate when I previously posted it on what

Re: SV: Openssl documentation

2000-02-17 Thread Ben Laurie
"Hellan,Kim KHE" wrote: > > Officially I don't think so. > > But check out http://www.columbia.edu/~ariel/ssleay/... > > which is the most comprehensive documentation I have found so far. Actually, Ulf, Bodo and Steve have been doing great work on docco l

Function layout and documentation

2006-07-21 Thread Kyle Hamilton
I don't know if this is the proper place to bring this up, or if a project fork would be more appropriate (given the investment that exists in the current API/ABI)... I would like to be able to determine and document what parameters of a cryptographic object passed to any given library function m

[Documentation] SSL_get_peer_certificate and friends

2000-09-20 Thread Lutz Jaenicke
Another small chunk of manual pages, Lutz -- Lutz Jaenicke [EMAIL PROTECTED] BTU Cottbus http://www.aet.TU-Cottbus.DE/personen/jaenicke/ Lehrstuhl Allgemeine Elektrotechnik Tel. +49 355 69-4129 Universitaetsplatz 3-4, D-03044 Cott

re[2]: Openssl Documentation

2000-09-29 Thread Jeff Roberts
I know where telnet is documented. Where is Openssl documented ? I.E. Where is SSL_connect() documented ?? I see a prototype of it, but I don't see and type of description on what it performs, what other openssl calls are prerequisites , etc Thank You, Jeff Roberts

re[4]: Openssl Documentation

2000-09-29 Thread Jeff Roberts
Thank you, I am new to this. Can you tell me what application reads a POD file ? jeff __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aut

re[2]: Openssl Documentation

2000-09-29 Thread Jeff Roberts
Right off the main openssl web page. I looked in the most obvious place, under the "Documents" link of the openssl home page and did not find it ! __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Devel

[Documentation] SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations and friends

2000-10-03 Thread Lutz Jaenicke
Hi! Some manual pages about SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations() and friends. Best regards, Lutz -- Lutz Jaenicke [EMAIL PROTECTED] BTU Cottbus http://www.aet.TU-Cottbus.DE/personen/jaenicke/ Lehrstuhl Allgemeine Elektrotechnik Tel.

[Documentation] SSL_CTX_set_verify and friends

2000-10-12 Thread Lutz Jaenicke
Hi! attached are manual pages for SSL_CTX_set_verify() and friends including the *_set_verify_depth() functions as of the discussion about the exact functionality. I have also added some more information to SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations() as the result of a discussion on openssl-users, where exp

Re: documentation / examples pointers?

2000-11-28 Thread les
ve* :) > >Are there any good sources of documentation on openssl? The man page gives >some information, and I've found some examples in the list archives, but not >quite what I'm looking for. > >Basically I've been tasked to write a server that will communicate with

Re: documentation / examples pointers?

2000-11-28 Thread jkunz
On 28 Nov, Alan wrote: > Are there any good sources of documentation on openssl? The man page gives > some information, and I've found some examples in the list archives, but not > quite what I'm looking for. Wy do you need man pages when you can read source code? ;-) >

Re: documentation / examples pointers?

2000-11-28 Thread Alan
On 28-Nov-2000 les wrote: > I'm not sure if it's in every distro but in the latest stable release in > openssl-0.9.6/demos/ssl/ there are two c+ files, cli.cpp and > serv.cpp. they should give you a good starting point... Ah, perfect. My appolagies, I'm on a debian system and completely for

Re: documentation / examples pointers?

2000-11-28 Thread Andrew W. Gray
These are no more c++ than my dog is president (although he would be better than the US's other options). These are rote C. The names should be changed to *.c within the source tree to aleviate linker errors on several platforms. -- Andrew Alan wrote: > > On 28-Nov-2000 les wrote: > > I'm not

Re: Documentation of SSL_get1_session()

2001-11-19 Thread Lutz Jaenicke
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 05:29:31PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In http://www.openssl.org/docs/ssl/SSL_get_session.html#, > "If the data is to be kept, SSL_get1_session() will increment the reference count >and the > session will stay in memory until explicitly freed with SSL_SESSION_free(3

Re: [openssl.org #298] Documentation suggestions

2002-10-04 Thread Cory Albrecht via RT
ate it. :-) > As for the POD files, I'll ponder a little more about your proposed > change. In the meantime, I would like to help out with any documentation tasks. Whether it is a documentation issue that hasn't been gotten to due to lack of time, or a wish-list thing like "

Re: [openssl.org #298] Documentation suggestions

2002-10-04 Thread Cory Albrecht
ll > other options. Danke schön. I and all the other easily confused putzes appreciate it. :-) > As for the POD files, I'll ponder a little more about your proposed > change. In the meantime, I would like to help out with any documentation tasks. Whether it is a documentation issue

error in documentation about BIO_read

2003-07-09 Thread Maxim Masiutin
Hello Openssl Developers, Could you please update the documentation on BIO_read, particularly the BIO_read.pod file!? There is a paragraph in the file: --- A 0 or -1 return is not necessarily an indication of an error. In particular when the source/sink is non-blocking or of a

Re: [openssl.org #882] Documentation patch

2004-05-07 Thread Jim Schneider via RT
On Thursday 06 May 2004 08:45, Jim Schneider wrote: > Here's a patch for d2i_SSL_SESSION.pod, pointing out a pitfall when using > i2d_SSL_SESSION Actually, that wasn't as clear as it should be - pp isn't getting clobbered, what it points to (*pp) is getting clobbered. ___

[openssl.org #938] Documentation type error

2004-08-23 Thread Felipe Franciosi via RT
Hi, I was reading the documentation for SSL_shutdown() and noticed an error on the beggining of the 4th paragraph of the section NOTES. It reads: "...will only send the alert and the set the SSL_SENT_SHUTDOWN flag..." I believe it should be: "...will only send the alert a

[openssl.org #938] Documentation type error

2004-11-14 Thread Stephen Henson via RT
Done, thanks for the report. Steve. __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAI

API documentation available for OpenSSL?

1999-07-15 Thread Thomas Riedrich
Is there API documentation available for OpenSSL? The fragments at www.openssl.org/docs/ are somewhat minimalistic, alas. Thank you, tr. __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development

2nd draft of openssl.conf documentation

1999-10-07 Thread Damien Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please find attached a second draft of the openssl.conf documentation. This version fixes several errors in the X.509v3 extensions section documentation. Comments? Regards, Damien Miller - -- | "Bombay is 250ms from New York in the new

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