Question regarding TLS

2009-08-21 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: This may not be the right list to ask, if so please redirect me, thanks. I have been asked to study the possibility of using for authentication without encryption, ie using TLS_RSA_WITH_NULL_SHA. Reading the RFC5246, it appears that the server authentication is only possible through key

AW: Accessing unknown certificate extensions by OID

2009-08-21 Thread Natanael Mignon - michael-wessel . de
Hello, ok, what I did so far is get the extension by OID. At least I know by now, whether the extension is present or not: [...] X509 *client_cert = X509_STORE_CTX_get_current_cert(ctx); const char *admoid = 1.3.36.8.3.3; ASN1_OBJECT *admobj = NULL; X509_EXTENSION *admext = NULL; int

OpenSSL and SP800-56a requirements

2009-08-21 Thread Michael Kurecka
Does anyone know if the DH implementation of OpenSSL meets the SP800-56a requirements? __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List

SSL_clear to reuse SSL session on client

2009-08-21 Thread Rij
Hello Forum, I have a series of clients that connect to the same server. I would like to improve performance by reusing SSL session. When the 1st client comes in, I create a new SSL object using SSL_new(). The I go through all the drills. In the end, I call SSL_shutdown() and then call

Re: Question regarding TLS

2009-08-21 Thread Pandit Panburana
Hello Erik, The authentication occurs during the initial setup of TLS session (handshake phase). If the peer (or peers in case of mutual authentication) is authenticated then both sides agree in a common secrets for the session as part handshake phase. The messages sent in the

Undocumented functions/macros/structs

2009-08-21 Thread barcaroller
I was looking at the OpenSSL source code and some open-source applications using OpenSSL, and I came across functions like X509_get_issuer_name() and X509_get_pubkey(), and macros like X509_extract_key(). These seem to be very useful but I could not find them anywhere in the online OpenSSL

RE: Question regarding PEM_read_bio_X509()

2009-08-21 Thread Dave Thompson
From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org On Behalf Of Dr. Stephen Henson Sent: Thursday, 20 August, 2009 18:34 On Wed, Aug 19, 2009, barcaroller wrote: I have a PEM-format server certificate that I need to convert to a binary structure as defined in section 7.4.2. (Server Certificate) of

RE: Getting spc and pvk file from pfx file: and running on Windows

2009-08-21 Thread Dave Thompson
From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org On Behalf Of narendra.ku...@thomsonreuters.com Sent: Tuesday, 18 August, 2009 05:44 I have installed Win32OpenSSL-0_9_7m.exe. am unable to proceed further on how to extract the spc and pvk files from the pfx file I have. I assume you

RE: Question regarding TLS: eNULL

2009-08-21 Thread Dave Thompson
From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org On Behalf Of Erik Norgaard Sent: Friday, 21 August, 2009 04:22 I have been asked to study the possibility of using for authentication without encryption, ie using TLS_RSA_WITH_NULL_SHA. Reading the RFC5246, it appears that the server authentication