how to generate key pair at client browser (IE)

2001-12-06 Thread Sarath Chandra M
Title: Message Hi, I have a requirement like this. Users/clients will access a web site, fill in a form, generate a keypair and send it to server. the csr is done at the server. client cert is created in the server and sent back thru email. Is this a proper approach ? If so, I would like

Re: how to generate key pair at client browser (IE)

2001-12-06 Thread Dr S N Henson
Sarath Chandra M wrote: Hi, I have a requirement like this. Users/clients will access a web site, fill in a form, generate a keypair and send it to server. the csr is done at the server. client cert is created in the server and sent back thru email. Is this a proper approach ? If so, I

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Re: PKI book in relation to VPNs

2001-12-06 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Matt Sauve-Frankel wrote: maybe I should have targetted SSL and TLS differently :)) God forbid, your book is about as good as it ever gets... thank you for writing it, it's a gem... Hear, hear! There is plenty of material out there for people who want to buy

Cryptology Questions

2001-12-06 Thread Andrew Finnell
Title: Cryptology Questions Hi all, I was wondering if someone could help me out. I have to speak with some cryptology experts later today and was wondering if some answers could be answered. 1. What is the normal/(most secure) way to store private keys and protect them? Right now I

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RE: Cryptology Questions

2001-12-06 Thread Neff Robert A
Title: Cryptology Questions hmmm...a tall order for us busy folks...but I'll help you out some. 1. Provided you are using a "strong" password to encrypt your key when using DES-CBC you are pretty secure. Remember that if I can get access to, orcopy, your .pem file from off your machine I

RE: Cryptology Questions

2001-12-06 Thread Andrew Finnell
Title: RE: Cryptology Questions Neff, Thanks for the quick response. You actually helped me understand some aspects that I didnt truely understand before. For example the message digest. I did not know it was a checksum to validate that the data wasn't altered. --- More questions( better

RE: Cryptology Questions

2001-12-06 Thread Erwann ABALEA
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Andrew Finnell wrote: digest. I did not know it was a checksum to validate that the data wasn't altered. It's more robust than the usual checksums (CRC). You can easily fool a CRC32, but fooling a cryptographic digest is another matter... In fact, for MD5 and SHA1, nobody

OCSP verification

2001-12-06 Thread Tat Sing Kong
Hello, I am looking at verifying the OCSP responses, in regard to verifying the OCSP signer certificate. I have been looking at OCSP_basic_verify, but can't figure it out, and there's no documentation. Can anyone shed any light? Also, are there any code examples of walking up a CA chain and

Re: Cryptology Questions

2001-12-06 Thread Eric Rescorla
Erwann ABALEA [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Andrew Finnell wrote: digest. I did not know it was a checksum to validate that the data wasn't altered. It's more robust than the usual checksums (CRC). You can easily fool a CRC32, but fooling a cryptographic digest is

Sending/Detecting CA Certificate to client

2001-12-06 Thread Paulo Matos
Hi folks! I created a CA Certiicate that a plan to use to sign all certificates that I'll use on our services. My major problem is how can I detect if the client as already the CA cert (so I can decide if I should send the certificate to him or not). Thanks, --

countryName field rejected by openssl w/ keytool

2001-12-06 Thread Richard Hassinger
I am having trouble signing a client key created with Java's keytool with a CA key created with openssl. I get the message The countryName field needed to be the same in the CA certificate (US) and the request (US), which doesn't make sense since they ARE the same. I am including a transcript of

Re: Cryptology Questions

2001-12-06 Thread Eric Rescorla
Andrew Finnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was wondering if someone could help me out. I have to speak with some cryptology experts later today and was wondering if some answers could be answered. 1. What is the normal/(most secure) way to store private keys and protect them?

RE: Cryptology Questions

2001-12-06 Thread Neff Robert A
Title: RE: Cryptology Questions Yes, the digest is used to validate that the data wasn't altered. Remember that anyone can calculate the digest of a message. If the digest wasn't encrypted with your private key, then someone could change the data, recompute the digest, and exchange the

Re: Sending/Detecting CA Certificate to client

2001-12-06 Thread Erwann ABALEA
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Paulo Matos wrote: Hi folks! I created a CA Certiicate that a plan to use to sign all certificates that I'll use on our services. My major problem is how can I detect if the client as already the CA cert (so I can decide if I should send the certificate

Re: OCSP verification

2001-12-06 Thread Dr S N Henson
Tat Sing Kong wrote: Hello, I am looking at verifying the OCSP responses, in regard to verifying the OCSP signer certificate. I have been looking at OCSP_basic_verify, but can't figure it out, and there's no documentation. Can anyone shed any light? Also, are there any code examples