Re: FIPS

2009-02-27 Thread smitha daggubati
thank you all for your time On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Steve Marquess wrote: > Kyle Hamilton wrote: > > The answer to your question is: there might be, but this is FAR > > beyond the level where anyone other than a specialist will be able to > > help you. > > How true. I've hesitated to we

Re: attributecertificate extensions

2009-02-27 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009, Christian Weber wrote: > > The problem arises when it comes to parsing a dateOfBirth attribute, since is > of ASN1 > type GENERALIZEDTIME. All other are (more or less) strings. > > In OpenSSL GeneralName of Type GEN_DIRNAME is mapped to X509_NAME (see > x509v3.h) > which

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Re: FIPS

2009-02-27 Thread Steve Marquess
Kyle Hamilton wrote: > The answer to your question is: there might be, but this is FAR > beyond the level where anyone other than a specialist will be able to > help you. How true. I've hesitated to weigh in on this thread because of the complications that make my head hurt. > This can be done i

attributecertificate extensions

2009-02-27 Thread Christian Weber
Dear OpenSSL users, lately I ran into a problem when trying to parse attributecertificates (ACs). ACs contain a sequence of attributes which look like x509v5 attributes. I've decided to use parts of the AC implementation from Daniel Díaz-Sánchez (downloable at http://www.it.uc3m.es/dds/swRelease/

Re: FIPS

2009-02-27 Thread Carl Young
- Original Message - From: "Kyle Hamilton" To: "openssl-users" Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 1:14 AM Subject: Re: FIPS Take everything I say here with a grain of salt: I'm not a FIPS expert, and it's entirely possible that I am misinterpreting something that I read. If Steve M wa

Re: how to use openssl rc4

2009-02-27 Thread Kyle Hamilton
use a lowercase -k, not an uppercase -K. -Kyle H On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:11 AM, xh wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to use openssl's subcommand rc4 to do encrypt and decrypt, but I > failed using the > following command. > > # openssl rc4 -K Key -in in.txt > iv undefined > > > What I think is I ca

how to use openssl rc4

2009-02-27 Thread xh
Hi all, I want to use openssl's subcommand rc4 to do encrypt and decrypt, but I failed using the following command. # openssl rc4 -K Key -in in.txt iv undefined What I think is I can use a key to encrypt plaintext in file in.txt and print out the cipher text. I will not direct use iv(initia