What are p7c p7b pkcs7 pem BER DER?

2000-05-02 Thread LI, Raymond C F
Hello, When I was trying to export a certificate from IE, it states a file extension of p7b. If this is a PKCS7 format certificate, what 's the difference between p7b and p7c? What is BER? I just know DER is Distinguished Encode Rules. In Openssl, I could (in many case) choose

Re: Certi

2000-05-02 Thread Bodo Moeller
On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 02:46:19PM -0500, Leland V. Lammert wrote: At 12:53 PM 4/26/00, you wrote: Of course, nothing is as secure as a human being typing the passphrase in at startup, but we've established that that is too much like hard work :). Sorry, .. but you missed the point. If you

Re: FAQ? (or recommended books) (fwd)

2000-05-02 Thread Dennis Glatting
Douglas Wikström wrote: Hello! I found "Applied Cryptography - Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C", by Bruce Schneier, second edition, to be very useful. The ISBN is 0-471-11709-9. I also found "SSL and TLS Essentials", Stephen Thomas, Wiley Computer Publishing,

Storng encryption?

2000-05-02 Thread chee
Hi! I am new to the SSL world and is very interested about the subject. I have downloaded Apache/mod-ssl/open-ssl and started my first SSL enabled web page. However, when I view the SSL certificate on my Browser, it says "40bits" key length. From what I read, the Strong Encryption suppose

Re: FAQ? (or recommended books) (fwd)

2000-05-02 Thread Andrew W. Gray
One can also read some book on number theory and algebra (abstract). That kind of books will describe what is not easily understood otherwise: Why the underlying problems are viewed as hard? This is not ofcourse necessary to successfully implement something from a standard, but its fun. :-)

Re: FAQ? (or recommended books) (fwd)

2000-05-02 Thread Douglas Wikström
Hello! I found "Applied Cryptography - Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C", by Bruce Schneier, second edition, to be very useful. The ISBN is 0-471-11709-9. I also found "SSL and TLS Essentials", Stephen Thomas, Wiley Computer Publishing, ISBN 0-471-38354-6 to be quite

RE: Decrypting a key

2000-05-02 Thread John Banghart
Thanks. Next question. Is there anyway to determine what the PEM pass phrase is for a given key? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 9:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Decrypting a key I found

Re: BN functions and Solaris 7 'bc' disagree

2000-05-02 Thread cFischer
On Mon-01.05.00-09:55, Ted Powell wrote: Whatever the limits of the Solaris bc are, I would expect to get something like the following (actual Solaris output) when they are reached: $ bc 10^1 what is all this math-tender for in the first place? are these calculations that a

Re: BN functions and Solaris 7 'bc' disagree

2000-05-02 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
From: cFischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ino-waiting On Mon-01.05.00-09:55, Ted Powell wrote: ino-waiting Whatever the limits of the Solaris bc are, I would expect to get something ino-waiting like the following (actual Solaris output) when they are reached: ino-waiting $ bc ino-waiting

Problems Installing Certificates

2000-05-02 Thread Bill Norman
I'm running Open SSL and Apache on Solaris 7. I had created a request file (using OpenSSL) and sent it to Verisign. Now, I have received the signed certificate back from Verisign, and I get the following errors when I try to install it. unable to load CA private key 7645:error:06065064:digital

Cannot Install on DEC-UNIX-4.0f (out of virtual memory)

2000-05-02 Thread Rob Winningham
I am very new to SSL, however I am trying very hard to learn. My problem is probably trivial with a simple solution, but I cannot get past it. My setup is as follows: Digital-Alpha EV6 processor 466MHz 512MB RAM Compaq Tru64 Unix v4.0f I am attempting to install OpenSSL v0.9.5a. I am

RE: Decrypting a key

2000-05-02 Thread Tom Jordan
Yes. Ask the person that owns the key :) Otherwise, you're going to need to figure out how to exploit whatever encryption was used on the key. I don't think there's any realistic way to get this information (and there probably shouldn't be). --Tom At 08:31 AM 5/2/2000 -0400, you

signing data

2000-05-02 Thread Son . To . wh98
I am trying to sign data using DSA. My code fails on EVP_SignFinal(). It fails on line 92 in p_sign.c . I think there is something wrong with the way I created EVP_MD_CTX structure for EVP_SignInit(). Any help is appreciated. Here is my code #include openssl/evp.h #include openssl/dsa.h

RE: BN functions and Solaris 7 'bc' disagree

2000-05-02 Thread Michael Wojcik
-Original Message- From: cFischer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 7:32 PM what is all this math-tender for in the first place? are these calculations that a public-key cryptosystem has to be capable of? i dont run openssl (or ssleay or rsa-c) at the moment,

Re: BF_cbc_encrypt()

2000-05-02 Thread Houman Ghaemi
I am no expert in cryptography, but what you pointed out must be the initial vector. Because you are using Blowfish in CBC mode you need a block of data before you can start the encryption. That block of data is called initial vector as far as I know(hence ivec). Paul Khavkine wrote: I'm fooling

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2000-05-02 Thread omrib
i need help with installing ssl in sambar server for win nt5 its use openssl. you can read about sambar at www.sambar.com i cant find compiled openssl to use thanks omri __ OpenSSL Project

Re: FreeBSD Installation

2000-05-02 Thread Wes Peters
"CyberSynth.com" wrote: I am trying to install openssl on an FreeBSD unix virtual server. It does not see the command ./config what command am I to use? # cd /usr/ports/security/openssl # make If you already fetched the source, move it to /usr/ports/distfiles before

Re: [FWD] Does OpenSSL 0.9.5a Support VxWorks?

2000-05-02 Thread Wes Peters
Richard Levitte wrote: - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Could you please tell me whether latest OpenSSL version can support VxWorks? If not, what's your opinion of building a TCP/IP stack on VxWorks and then port OpenSSL on top of it? It would be a whole lot easier

Re: signing data

2000-05-02 Thread Dr Stephen Henson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to sign data using DSA. My code fails on EVP_SignFinal(). It fails on line 92 in p_sign.c . I think there is something wrong with the way I created EVP_MD_CTX structure for EVP_SignInit(). Any help is appreciated. Here is my code #include

creating a self signed certificate

2000-05-02 Thread Brian J. Rohan
I am trying to create a self signed certificate for my server. I have already made and installed everything necessary (using Apache 1.3.12, open_ssl-0.9.4, and mod_ssl 2.6) to get my server running, then I created a certificate by going into the apache dir, and typed make certificate. When I