Re: Storing information on the server -- NEWBIE ?

1999-07-10 Thread Michael
Credit card information should not be kept on the server. Send it on a one-way only trip to a second machine which is no accessible via the internet. On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Russell D. Weiss wrote: Hey, I'm new to cryptography and I haven't done much with it. I have Apache-SSL working with

Re: Storing information on the server -- NEWBIE ?

1999-07-10 Thread Ben Laurie
Michael wrote: Credit card information should not be kept on the server. Send it on a one-way only trip to a second machine which is no accessible via the internet. How do you do that, then? (FWIW, I agree with the "one way trip" bit, but it seems to me that "not accessible via the

RE: Storing information on the server -- NEWBIE ?

1999-07-10 Thread Russell D. Weiss
Credit card information should not be kept on the server. Send it on a one-way only trip to a second machine which is no accessible via the internet. But what if I don't have the luxury of doing this? Any other options? Thanks, Russell

RE: Storing information on the server -- NEWBIE ?

1999-07-10 Thread Craig Southeren
Michael wrote: Credit card information should not be kept on the server. Send it on a one-way only trip to a second machine which is no accessible via the internet. How do you do that, then? (FWIW, I agree with the "one way trip" bit, but it seems to me that "not accessible via the

Re: rsa_oaep_test

1999-07-10 Thread Ulf Möller
Here is a test data that does not work with rsa_oaep_test.c Can someone tell me what could be wrong? You've got an invalid value for iqmp. You can set it like this: BN_mod_inverse(key-iqmp, key-q, key-p, ctx); int RSA_check(RSA *key) { BIGNUM *i, *j, *k; BN_CTX *ctx; int

Re: Cypher Suites supported (more) (some more)

1999-07-10 Thread Bodo Moeller
Juan Carlos Castro y Castro [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Now I researched and learned (correct me if I'm wrong please) that I can't ignore the server certificate if I'm using RSA as the key exchanger. I'll have to use DH if I want a "thin" SSL client. Another thing: I used "openssl s_client -connect

Re: Slow Generation of RSA private keys and SSL handshake on HP-UX 9000/xxx...

1999-07-10 Thread Bodo Moeller
"Patrick Harlin" [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have tested on all the platforms several times, and I could still see that one of the machines have problem with slow generation of private keys. It seems like Test2 machine always is 3 minutes slower then all other HP installations ??? One other odd

Re: DSA params in X.509 certs

1999-07-10 Thread Dr Stephen Henson
Doug Erickson wrote: Howdy -- I am doing the following to generate a DSA cert: dsaparam -out client-param.pem 512 req -newkey dsa:client-param.pem -nodes \ -keyout client-key.pem -out client-csr.pem x509 -req -CAcreateserial -CA ca-cert.pem -CAkey ca-key.pem \ -in

RE: Storing information on the server -- NEWBIE ?

1999-07-10 Thread Russell D. Weiss
Storing the information on the SSL server is a Very Bad Idea (tm), as it makes it available to anyone who can hack into SSL server. Putting it at arms length, whilst not necessarily more secure in an absolute sense, extends the time it will take for someone to crack the connection, which

RE: Storing information on the server -- NEWBIE ?

1999-07-10 Thread Harry Whitehouse
PMFJI -- I'm curious as to what folks have used to separate the SSL server from the "isolated back end". SCSI, RS232, other techniques? Are there commerical solutions available? TIA Harry -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Craig