Re: OpenSSL, Apache 2 and RSA key sizes

2006-08-23 Thread Charlie Lenahan
George Adams wrote: 1) Why isn't everyone using stronger public/private key pairs? Nobody who seems to offer SSL certs (Verisign, Thawte, GoDaddy, Comodo) tells their customers to generate 2048-bit keys with OpenSSL. Obviously they're not worried - why not? It's really up to you to

Re: APIs for generating a CSR

2006-08-21 Thread Charlie Lenahan
Look at X509_REQ_* functions. Subash Kalbarga wrote: Hi all I am trying to fit a CSR generating capability into a small footprint embedded system. Note that I already have the openssl library in there Openssl is about 300K in size which I want to avoid copying over if I can just for

cert chain building post tls handshake

2006-07-25 Thread Charlie Lenahan
Orginally I was using SSL_get_peer_cert_chain() func, which I though was giving me the cert chain built up to verify the peer cert from the certs that i added to the SSL_CTX-cert_store , but then I discovered that it really is the cert chain given by the client during the TLS handshake. That

Is it proper for OCSP calls to be in SSL_CTX_set_verify callback?

2006-06-19 Thread Charlie Lenahan
I am looking at adding OCSP to a TLS handshake, and trying to figure out the intended use of the callback function in SSL_CTX_set_verify(). From what I gather for each certificate in a chain it will call the verify_callback func() . In that function that I provide, I can make my OCSP or SCVP

Does OpenSSL's path validation logic support Bridge PKIs?

2006-06-06 Thread Charlie Lenahan
Does OpenSSL's path validation logic support Bridge PKIs? __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing Listopenssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager

Re: delayed setting of IV w/ EVP interface

2001-12-12 Thread Charlie Lenahan
The man pages says for EncryptInit It is possible to set all parameters to NULL except type in an initial call and supply the remaining parameters in subsequent calls, all of which have type set to NULL. This is done when the default cipher parameters are not appropriate. Does that mean you