Re: Are there any CA packages that support XMLRPC?

2007-09-20 Thread Rodney Thayer
Richard Hartmann wrote: I am replying to myself to clarify somthing which I should have put better: I want to run my own CA, not buy certificates from established ones. You said CA packages, you didn't say something to the effect of use a retail Certificate Authority. So at least some of us

intermediate CA configuration

2007-09-20 Thread mallika
i want to create intermediate CA from root CA by using openssl.cnf. how to configure openssl.cnf file for creating intermediate ca which contains all attributes like root ca which is having obj signing,certificate revocation...can any body help me -- View this message in context:

CBC with ciphertext stealing?

2007-09-20 Thread tali
I need to use CBC with ciphertext stealing. I found the following on Wikipedia: CBC ciphertext stealing encryption using a standard CBC interface 1. Encrypt the plaintext through the last full block using the standard CBC mode. 2. Pad the last partial block with the trailing ciphertext of the

Re: Safe signed certificate generation during server installation ?

2007-09-20 Thread Urjit Gokhale
Thank you very much for your response , David and Victor. I really appreciate it. So could someone guide me with the best practices used in such scenarios? Is there a way to securely embed the private key in the installers / CA certificate? I guess I'm confused. What purpose would a

RE: intermediate CA configuration

2007-09-20 Thread Bynum, Don
This should be good for most purposes. Note the basicConstraints attribute of pathlen. Unlike the root CA which has no pathlen, the intermediate has a pathlen of 0. ### subjectKeyIdentifier=hash authorityKeyIdentifier=keyid:always

Re: Are there any CA packages that support XMLRPC?

2007-09-20 Thread Richard Hartmann
On 20/09/2007, Rodney Thayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That being said the existence of any code that handles that sort of thing is interesting, since there are so few implementations. Yes, it seems that everyone who does any real work in this direction keeps the fruits to themselves :/ If I

Problems with TinyCA filenames

2007-09-20 Thread DanielFry
Hello out there! I've got a problem with the OpenSSL-based program TinyCA. I used this nice GUI-prog to create some certificates. I also created some certificates with commandline OpenSSL. Now my problem: TinyCA show's an nice overview about all certificates in the folder incl. CommonName,

compiling openssl for a vxworks target

2007-09-20 Thread Dan Clusin
All, I'm sure this topic has been broached before, but I cannot seem to find anything on the mailing list concerning getting core crypto and ssl compiled for vxworks. I have looked through the main makefile in the openssl/ directory and the openssl website, but have not found anything specific

RE: Safe signed certificate generation during server installation ?

2007-09-20 Thread David Schwartz
For now, my purpose is not to establish and identity of a server with the certificate. I plan to use a signed certificate, so that the client can be sure that the server indeed holds the private key associated with the public key provided by the server in its certificate. You have a

RE: intermediate CA configuration

2007-09-20 Thread mallika
I have given the command openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in intermediate.csr -CA root.certkey -CAcreateserial -out intermediate.crt -extensions usr_cert -extfile /etc/sll/openssl.cnf after creating the root CA, the root.certkey is having key and crt files.Is this command enough for creating the