Re: openssl 0.9.8m-beta1 with modssl patch does not disable renegotiation

2010-01-21 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010, fredk2 wrote: > > do I understand this correctly: > 0.9.8m sends a no_renegotiation alert and apache needs a mod_ssl patch that, > by default, upon this alert closes the connection? > No this isn't Apache's fault. OpenSSL 0.9.8m sends the no_renegotiation alert it's just t

Re: openssl 0.9.8m-beta1 with modssl patch does not disable renegotiation

2010-01-21 Thread fredk2
do I understand this correctly: 0.9.8m sends a no_renegotiation alert and apache needs a mod_ssl patch that, by default, upon this alert closes the connection? Thanks - Fred Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010, fredk2 wrote: > >> >> Yes I forgot to mention that I did test with

RE: multithreading question

2010-01-21 Thread David Schwartz
Victor Duchovni wrote: > Locking callbacks are needed for the reference counting in the CRYPTO > library to not get messed up. Various bits of context are associated > withe the new SSL object by reference. > Locking callbacks are required, period. If you are using OpenSSL with multiple threads,

Re: memory growing when using SSL connections

2010-01-21 Thread David
Just to conclude with this: My process has stopped growing in memory size after about 5 days which implies that my problem appeared to be a memory management issue (OS related) and as soon as the fragmentation from the frees settled, the memory foot print became stable. Thanks for everyone's he

Re: openssl 0.9.8m-beta1 with modssl patch does not disable renegotiation

2010-01-21 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010, fredk2 wrote: > > Yes I forgot to mention that I did test with the 0.9.8m s_client and that > worked. > The [new] problem 0.9.8m create is that a (old) client can request R and > exhaust all apache threads. > This is a bit of a problem for older clients because the specifi

Re: openssl 0.9.8m-beta1 with modssl patch does not disable renegotiation

2010-01-21 Thread fredk2
Yes I forgot to mention that I did test with the 0.9.8m s_client and that worked. The [new] problem 0.9.8m create is that a (old) client can request R and exhaust all apache threads. Thanks for the reply - Fred Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010, fredk2 wrote: > >> >> Hi, >>

Re: openssl 0.9.8m-beta1 with modssl patch does not disable renegotiation

2010-01-21 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010, fredk2 wrote: > > Hi, > > I have tried to read some of the old posts, but do not understand if the > following is an apache or openssl question. > > I am using the apache 2.2.14 mod_ssl with the patch: > http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/patches/apply_to_2.2.14/CVE-2009-35

openssl 0.9.8m-beta1 with modssl patch does not disable renegotiation

2010-01-21 Thread fredk2
Hi, I have tried to read some of the old posts, but do not understand if the following is an apache or openssl question. I am using the apache 2.2.14 mod_ssl with the patch: http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/patches/apply_to_2.2.14/CVE-2009-3555-2.2.patch When I test with openssl 0.9.8i the rene

Re: Re-negotiation handshake failed: Not accepted by client with OpenSSL 0.98m-beta1

2010-01-21 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:33:34 -0500, "Shotton, Fred" wrote: > I'm running apache 2.2.14 with mod_ssl using OpenSSL 0.98m-beta1. When > renegotiating a client session, I get an error from apache: > "Re-negotiation handshake failed: Not accepted by client" and a fatal > "unexpected_message" alert in

Re: Re-negotiation handshake failed: Not accepted by client with OpenSSL 0.98m-beta1

2010-01-21 Thread Frederick Shotton
Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010, Shotton, Fred wrote: > > > I'm running apache 2.2.14 with mod_ssl using OpenSSL 0.98m-beta1. > When renegotiating a client session, I get an error from apache: > "Re-negotiation handshake failed: Not accepted by client" and a fatal > "unexpected_m

Stunnel 4.30 released

2010-01-21 Thread Michal Trojnara
The ChangeLog entry: Version 4.30, 2010.01.21, urgency: LOW/EXPERIMENTAL: * New features - Graceful configuration reload with HUP signal on Unix and with GUI on Windows. This release involves major modifications of the code. I expect some regression issues, so please make sure to test this versi

Re: recommended rsa api

2010-01-21 Thread Ben Jones
note, also see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2012645/can-you-help-me-get-my-head-around-openssl-public-key-encryption-with-rsa-h-in-c Cheers, Ben. On 20 January 2010 16:22, Anand Patel wrote: > For RSA API take a look at http://openssl.org/docs/crypto/rsa.html# > -Anand > > > On Wed, Jan

setting up the SSL connection to access the email accounts

2010-01-21 Thread Jerry Wu
Hi, all, I am new to OpenSSL. I need some help to set up the SSL connection to the SSL email server. I have an application to access the email account and retrieve the emails automatically. Now, I find that for some email servers, eg. Gmail, the connection should be SSL. For the normal ema

RE: Query about verifying updates on OpenSSL

2010-01-21 Thread s...@wn
Let me reframe the last question.. What I meant to say is, could someone provide some info on how to test/verify whether the openSSL version has in fact been patched to confirm whether a backport update has in fact occurred? Thanks, Shawn From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org [mailto:o

Re: Re-negotiation handshake failed: Not accepted by client with OpenSSL 0.98m-beta1

2010-01-21 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010, Shotton, Fred wrote: > I'm running apache 2.2.14 with mod_ssl using OpenSSL 0.98m-beta1. When > renegotiating a client session, I get an error from apache: "Re-negotiation > handshake failed: Not accepted by client" and a fatal "unexpected_message" > alert in OpenSSL s_cli

Re: Specifying long name for OID

2010-01-21 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010, sandeep kiran p wrote: > Hi, > > Can I not include a long name when specifying an OID? Here is a part of my > openssl.cnf file. > > HOME = . > RANDFILE = $ENV::HOME/.rnd > oid_section = new_oids > > [ new_oids ] > > testoid=My Test OID, 1.2.3.4 > > This gives bac

Re: Re-negotiation handshake failed: Not accepted by client with OpenSSL 0.98m-beta1

2010-01-21 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010, Shotton, Fred wrote: > I'm running apache 2.2.14 with mod_ssl using OpenSSL 0.98m-beta1. When > renegotiating a client session, I get an error from apache: "Re-negotiation > handshake failed: Not accepted by client" and a fatal "unexpected_message" > alert in OpenSSL s_client

Query about verifying updates on OpenSSL

2010-01-21 Thread s...@wn
Hi, I probably have a silly question but, I currently have a bunch of customized Linux operating systems and on it runs OpenSSL. The version and rpm check indicates "OpenSSL 0.9.8h 28 May 2008" which is an older version. Furthermore, the change logs too indicate the latest update as: OpenSS

Re: OpenSSL 0.9.8m-beta1 release

2010-01-21 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:59:36AM +0100, OpenSSL wrote: > >The OpenSSL project team is pleased to announce the release of >version 0.9.8m-beta1 of our open source toolkit for SSL/TLS. This new >OpenSSL version is a security and bug fix beta release which implements >draft-ietf-tls

Re: error:0D0680A8:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_CHECK_TLEN:wrong tag

2010-01-21 Thread Ujwal Chinthala
Hi Dr, I already tried using : openssl pkcs7 -inform DER -in pkcs7.p7 It gives me the same error, which are as follows net\chint...@symdev1:~/Symphony/Dev/system/dl/sym-licensemanager$ openssl pkcs7 -inform DER -in pkcs7.p7 unable to load PKCS7 object 11381:error:0D0680A8:asn1 encoding routines