Re: ECDH-RSA key exchange support (rfc 4492)

2011-08-14 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011, Dave Thompson wrote: > > 1.0.0 allows any cert sig alg whose name includes "WithRSA". > > Adjacent in the code, 1.0.0 like 0.9.8 allows kECDH*e* only for cert > signed ECDSA+SHA1, though 1.0.0 otherwise handles ECDSA+SHA2family. > That probably needs a similar upgrade. >

noob question on OpenSSL

2011-08-14 Thread Dhoti Walla
Hi, I've gotten OpenSSL to work for me using examples from the Network Security with OpenSSL book. I've got two questions that I know are very basic - Mr Google was not very helpful here 1) how do I set SO_REUSEADDR option on my OpenSSL server? 2) when a client connects to the my server, h

Re: How to set nsCertType=SERVER for a server certificate?

2011-08-14 Thread Gaglia
On 08/13/2011 04:20 PM, yyy wrote: > In that openssl.cnf file add section section [server] Thanks, I've just figured it out :) it's strange that the default openssl.cnf lacks a [server] section, shouldn't it be inserted by default? _

Re: ECDH-RSA key exchange support (rfc 4492)

2011-08-14 Thread Gaglia
On 08/13/2011 04:28 AM, Dave Thompson wrote: > Adjacent in the code, 1.0.0 like 0.9.8 allows kECDH*e* only for cert > signed ECDSA+SHA1 Now, this is interesting. I have tried an OpenVPN setup using elliptic curves certificates generated with OpenSSL 1.0.0, and in fact I've found that I couldn't u