Re: ld: double free or corruption

2011-04-11 Thread Geoff Thorpe
Looks like a bug in the compiler tool-chain. Consider rolling back to something stable. If you're willing, you might want to scan the gcc bug database in case this is a known issue, and perhaps report it if it isn't? It might also be some system library the tool-chain is linked against, who kno

Re: OpenSSL and kernel __read_nocancel() blocking under heavy network congestion

2009-05-26 Thread Geoff Thorpe
Hi Mark, Mark Laubach wrote: > Hi David, > > Thanks and yes, these are the conundrums I'm curious about: > 1) why does the process get hung on __read_nocancel (), when the > connection is set to non-blocking, and only under heavy congestion?, > and 2) if the connection did turn blocking, why aren

Re: OpenSSL 1.0.0 beta 1 released

2009-04-02 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On Thursday 02 April 2009 11:24:56 Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 02, 2009, Geoff Thorpe wrote: > > On Wednesday 01 April 2009 16:34:35 Rene Hollan wrote: > > > This is an April Fools' joke, right? > > > > It's April 2, so I can reply now. &

Re: OpenSSL 1.0.0 beta 1 released

2009-04-02 Thread Geoff Thorpe
openssl.org on behalf of Geoff Thorpe > Sent: Wed 4/1/2009 12:11 PM > To: openssl-users@openssl.org > Subject: Re: OpenSSL 1.0.0 beta 1 released > > On Wednesday 01 April 2009 09:05:05 Thomas J. Hruska wrote: > > The problem is that I was under the distinct impression 0.9.9 was >

Re: OpenSSL 1.0.0 beta 1 released

2009-04-01 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On Wednesday 01 April 2009 09:05:05 Thomas J. Hruska wrote: > The problem is that I was under the distinct impression 0.9.9 was the > next release and 1.0.0 was a pipe dream a few years down the road (at > least). The choice of a 1.0 release is to clearly mark the fact that openssl is shifting to

Re: Openssl Engine Performance Benchmarks

2009-03-31 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On Tuesday 31 March 2009 23:16:10 Shasi Thati wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question regarding the openssl speed command. When I use this > command to test the crypto offload engine performance what is the > right command to use? > > Is it > > openssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc -engine xx -elapsed > >

Re: openSSL : digest command (md5) to crypto driver

2008-12-12 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On Friday 12 December 2008 01:07:04 Madhusudan Bhat wrote: > Hi Geoff, > > I appreciate your reply. Currently, I dont have any engine supported > at the openssl side. I have crypto driver at the kernel side, which > registered with the kernel for the hashing and encryption algos. > > >From the open

Re: openSSL : digest command (md5) to crypto driver

2008-12-11 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On Thursday 11 December 2008 12:44:24 Madhusudan Bhat wrote: > Hi All, > > I am having a issue when using digest command from openssl. When I > issue digest command md5 from openssl, kernel side it will never > receive IOCTL - CIOCGSESSION with sop->mac getting set, also it wont > receive IOCTL - C

Re: FIXED - CRYPTO_set_dynlock_* mystery ... (was: Engine Issue: nShield 500)

2008-11-28 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On Friday 21 November 2008 14:50:41 Sander Temme wrote: [snip] > I would suggest a > documentation fix, like so: > > Index: engines/e_chil.c > === > RCS file: /home/openssl/cvs/openssl/engines/e_chil.c,v > retrieving revision 1.9 > dif

Re: FIXED - CRYPTO_set_dynlock_* mystery ... (was: Engine Issue: nShield 500)

2008-11-21 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On Friday 21 November 2008 14:41:08 Max Pala wrote: > Hi Sander, > > I debugged the init process and it seems that you were right. The > disable_mutex_callbacks is set to 1 at e_chil.c:578. Definitely it > is due to initialization, at this point... > > ... looked into that, and... et voilas! Found

Re: CRYPTO_set_dynlock_* mystery ... (was: Engine Issue: nShield 500)

2008-11-21 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On Friday 21 November 2008 11:07:19 Max Pala wrote: > P.S.: As this code is basically the same for every application, what > about integrating a nice OPENSSL_init_pthread() function that will > initiate all the static locks and the dynamic functions ? That would > save *a lot of time* to many peopl

Re: CRYPTO_set_dynlock_* mystery ... (was: Engine Issue: nShield 500)

2008-11-21 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On Friday 21 November 2008 03:01:33 Massimiliano Pala wrote: > Hi David, > > that is really nice.. although.. after I gave it a try... it does not > really work :( > > Actually, it seems that the dynamic functions are never called... :( > > Investigating... The attached example seems to work. I pu

Re: CRYPTO_set_dynlock_* mystery ... (was: Engine Issue: nShield 500)

2008-11-20 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On Thursday 20 November 2008 20:57:10 Max Pala wrote: > it seems that I am missing the usage of the set of obscure functions: > > CRYPTO_set_dynlock_create_callback() > CRYPTO_set_dynlock_lock_callback() > CRYPTO_set_dynlock_destroy_callback() > > but I have no idea how to initial

Re: problems with VIA Eden sha1 HW acceleration in ssl

2008-11-19 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On Wednesday 19 November 2008 15:14:21 Jan Klod wrote: > On Wednesday 19 November 2008 21:02:06 Geoff Thorpe wrote: > > If neither Michael (Ludvig) nor Andy (Polyakov) respond in the next > > day or so, I'll try to take a look at (and understand) the state of > &g

Re: problems with VIA Eden sha1 HW acceleration in ssl

2008-11-19 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On Wednesday 19 November 2008 14:09:06 Jan Klod wrote: > On Wednesday 19 November 2008 19:40:06 Michael S. Zick wrote: > > On Wed November 19 2008, Jan Klod wrote: > > > On Wednesday 19 November 2008 19:28:51 Michael S. Zick wrote: > > > > That simplifies things, try 0.9.8i > > > > http://gentoo-po

Re: how to fix bugs in openssl?

2008-10-16 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On Thursday 16 October 2008 12:32:01 Евгений wrote: > Could I commit my patch to openssl source code to fix bug that I > found? No, but you're welcome to post details of the bug plus any fixes you have to propose. There is also a request tracker where you could describe the bug and your patch (w

Re: openssl on Sun solaris failed

2008-10-16 Thread Geoff Thorpe
Responding to openssl-users which is the place for this sort of discussion, the openssl-dev list is for development of openssl itself (rather than using openssl or developing external code that uses it). It appears your system (or your PATH) doesn't include the "make" binary. Compiling source c

Re: Year 2038 problem

2008-10-06 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On Monday 06 October 2008 11:19:08 Michael S. Zick wrote: > A more likely possibility - > All of the crypto-locks on the physical facilities will not work, > nor any of the access cards - nobody will be able to get in. > Meaning the world will be effectively, totally disarmed. Or even better: "eff

Re: Cannot create keystore using Purify instrumented binaries.

2008-10-02 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On Thursday 02 October 2008 06:40:53 Sanjith Chungath wrote: > I am getting thousands of UMRs and finally one segmentation error and > a core dump while trying to create a keystore. Am using 0.9.8g. > Everything works fine without purify. I also tried rebuilding openssl > with PURIFY" compiler opti

Re: network connection encrypted/secure using ssl and sockets ?!

2008-09-03 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On Wednesday 03 September 2008 11:46:29 Ger Hobbelt wrote: > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Manuel Sahm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I want to make my network connection encrypted/secure using ssh. > > Please note that SSH is not SSL: SSH is a protocol on top of SSL. > Since you're talking about

Re: Compiling static vs. dynamic and building a universal binary

2008-07-17 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On Thursday 17 July 2008 12:26:33 Bruce Stephens wrote: > Geoff Thorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > Has this ever been (in recent history) an issue within a given > > release branch? Ie. has 0.9.8(n+1) ever broken apps that were > > running ok

Re: Compiling static vs. dynamic and building a universal binary

2008-07-17 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On Wednesday 16 July 2008 14:56:26 Kenneth Goldman wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/16/2008 10:08:31 AM: > > 2) using static builds has a benefit: you know exactly what your > > application is going to get SSL-wise: you will be sure it is installed > > on the target system because you brought

Re: Errors while building OpenSSL in Windows

2008-07-11 Thread Geoff Thorpe
Did you try building with an up-to-date CVS snapshot? ftp://ftp.openssl.org/snapshot/ I don't know if you were using some already-released package version, but if so, then you would miss any fixes since then. (Ie. we don't rerelease 0.9.8x when bugs are found, we release 0.9.8y instead...) And

Re: Wider fallout from Debian issue?

2008-05-30 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On Friday 30 May 2008 07:39:08 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I personally don't like the idea of generating keys that people will > try, or using a weak/known key with small probability, but in this > case I think it's so small that simply scanning for and banning such > keys is good enough. > > I was

Re: Re: CRYPTO_add_lock() segmentation fault (core dump included)

2008-04-08 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 10:04 -0500, Ion Scerbatiuc wrote: > Thank you for your reply! You're welcome :-) > I didn't find any refferences to CRYPTO_set_add_lock_callback() in > openssl man pages nor the meaning of this functions/callbacks. Ahh, well once you start to understand this stuff better,

Re: CRYPTO_add_lock() segmentation fault (core dump included)

2008-04-08 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 03:35 -0500, Ion Scerbatiuc wrote: > Hello! > I wrote a multithreaded server using OpenSSL v 0.9.7a (running on a RH > Enterprise Linux 2.6.9-55.0.2.ELsmp). > The problem is my server is crashing at random times (it could stay > alive for 24 hours or can crash within 4 hours).

Re: Nagios plugin installation for check_http ssl

2008-03-27 Thread Geoff Thorpe
Hello again, I replied to this already on the openssl-dev list, although openssl-users is the more appropriate of the two lists. Please don't cross-post though. Thanks. Cheers, Geoff On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 17:07 -0400, Azam Syed wrote: > I loaded openssl 0.9.8g and when I complie Nagios plugin it

Re: Question regarding use of SSL_get_ex_new_index

2008-03-25 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 17:38 -0400, Amit Sharma wrote: > I have an application that creates a bunch of SSL connections during > its life. For each of these connections, I have to store “application > data” in an SSL object (in my case this is SSL_client object). The > trouble is that the memory all

Re: Clarification questions on OpenSSL thread-safe support

2008-03-11 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 17:23 -0600, Bryan Sutula wrote: > My questions: > 1. What I understand from this is that OpenSSL can be thread safe. > In order for it to be safely used in multi-threaded > applications, it needs: > A. to be built with multi-threaded versions

Re: Understanding the Engine-Hardware support

2006-11-03 Thread Geoff Thorpe
Hi John, > I have a question around the area of the Hardware device support that is > used by the various Engines in OpenSSL. In the 0.9.8.a tree there are > files for engines like Attala, uBSec, CryptoSwift etc. This is the area > in OpenSSL is what I am currently interested in understanding. >

Re: Licenses...

2006-04-17 Thread Geoff Thorpe
ance or worse, refuses to be enlightened by it, just makes this fscking aggravating to boot. Discuss, question, reflect - by all means. But deranged evangalism should stay confined to the privacy of your own home (or nearest foreign policy think-tank). Sincerely, An

Re: steps to use a dynamic engine from an application

2005-12-03 Thread Geoff Thorpe
ll times. 'struct_ref' represents references to the structure itself, whether it's enabled or not. 'funct_ref' represents 'enabled' references - so the engine is initialised if and only if funct_ref>=1. Hope that helps, Geoff -- Geoff

Re: steps to use a dynamic engine from an application

2005-11-29 Thread Geoff Thorpe
e of ENGINE_set_default_RSA() though if you want to know if it succeeded. BTW, your application needs to call ENGINE_cleanup() when closing down, as this releases any/all internal references. Eg. ENGINE_set_default_RSA() causes an intern

Re: Problem with OpenSSL on Solaris x86 *

2005-10-04 Thread Geoff Thorpe
or something like that, than "make clean && make". Then if you still get the problem, the core-dump will provide a more useful backtrace. Cheers, Geoff -- Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geoffthorpe.net/ Même ceux qui se sentent pas des nôtr

Re: Using OpenSSL with 'ubsec' hardware on FreeBSD

2005-04-19 Thread Geoff Thorpe
er post that the "/dev/crypto" engine might work on Free/OpenBSD if the kernel has a built-in driver, but that might only provide access to cipher/hash functionality - I doubt public-key crypto stuff goes through /dev/crypto. I should check, but I don't recall seeing this get adde

Re: Using OpenSSL with 'ubsec' hardware on FreeBSD

2005-04-18 Thread Geoff Thorpe
ng ought to be able to convince openssl to find libubsec.so. Whether the result will be version-compatible is another issue, but you might be lucky. Cheers, Geoff -- Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geoffthorpe.net/ Greedy Genghis George, Guru of God and Guns.

Re: 22 NOv 2004 SNAPSHOTS

2004-11-22 Thread Geoff Thorpe
e issue. Salut, Geoff -- Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geoffthorpe.net/ Greedy Genghis George, Guru of God and Guns. __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mail

Re: Hardware Acclerator for Mod exp calculations

2004-11-12 Thread Geoff Thorpe
make use of the > Hardware Mod exp rather than software Mod exp. Take a look at the "atalla" engine implementation as an example. In CVS snapshots, it's in engines/e_atalla.c, and in 0.9.7 it's in crypto/engine/hw_atalla.c. Cheers, Geoff -- Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:

Re: DOD Root Certificates and OpenSSL

2004-10-22 Thread Geoff Thorpe
r a response while you sift through the s_server output. Good luck, Geoff -- Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geoffthorpe.net/ __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Suppo

Re: In custom RSA_METHOD, rsa_priv_enc() is enough?

2004-10-10 Thread Geoff Thorpe
tion uses your ENGINE for it to be able to hook all the private key work to the appropriate CryptoAPI token. (You could put in a placebo key-file to satisfy any applications that don't support the ENGINE_load_private_key(

Re: In custom RSA_METHOD, rsa_priv_enc() is enough?

2004-10-06 Thread Geoff Thorpe
ith RSA_METHOD). If you provide a non-NULL engine, it'll try to use that ENGINE's RSA_METHOD implementation - however it'll also make sure to verify the implementation is initialised, bump the reference count for use by

Re: traffic sniff

2004-09-28 Thread Geoff Thorpe
t down into the protocol more deeply, try Eric's 'ssldump' tool. Cheers, Geoff -- Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geoffthorpe.net/ __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User

Re: Trouble using PKCS5_pbe2_set()

2004-09-13 Thread Geoff Thorpe
; printf("BF-CBC key len = %d\n", EVP_CIPHER_key_length(cipher)); > } Try defining your FRED structure as const and see if that doesn't help it crash. Anyway, the fact remains that you are better to copy the original implementation and then manipulate you

Re: max sessions

2004-07-29 Thread Geoff Thorpe
D_SETSIZE? Or maybe some other function that > replaces select() for programs with LOTS of descriptors? I don't know which system you're runing, but perhaps you might have more luck with poll(2)? Cheers, Geoff -- Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL

Re: Use of Engine

2004-07-07 Thread Geoff Thorpe
otprint bloat was a problem, though it may still be relevant for some restricted (eg. embedded) environments where disk space (or flash memory) is limited. Hope that helps. Cheers, Geoff -- Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geoffthorpe.net/

Re: Dynamic Engine

2004-03-23 Thread Geoff Thorpe
application doesn't yet support this). Hope that helps - take a little time to surf the code is my advice, you'll probably start to get a feel for how it's all hooked up. You might also search the mail archives for previous dicussions of some of these issues whe

Re: Using 2 or more engines

2004-03-02 Thread Geoff Thorpe
functionality was created to do precisely what you're asking for, and this hooks off a callback provided by the engine implementation that should allow it to provide hardware-specific key-loading support. If it only calls PEM functions, then it is not written to handle HSM keys.

Re: Using 2 or more engines

2004-03-02 Thread Geoff Thorpe
rather heavily on what "hardware key" means. If the corresponding ENGINE supports it, you should use ENGINE_load_private_key(). Cheers, Geoff -- Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geoffthorpe.net/ ___

Re: openssl-based win32 programs

2003-10-15 Thread Geoff Thorpe
Wine - even to the point that (in theory) you should be able to switch between dynamic linking with any mixture of Wine and/or MS versions of DLLs (except ntdll and kernel, for what should be fairly obvious reasons). Cheers, Geoff -- Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geofftho

openssl-based win32 programs

2003-10-15 Thread Geoff Thorpe
I shared libraries do "equivalent" jobs, and performance of applications should be more or less comparable in most cases (with only a few exceptions heavily favouring one platform or the other). The main thing to remember w.r.t. any performance fears is the acronym; "W

Re: OpenSSL + ECC

2003-10-07 Thread Geoff Thorpe
> I've contacted the maintainer. He didn't find references in the code > nor heard about it. A grep on "Sun" or "SUN" would have turned this up easy, or are you dealing with an older version? Cheers, Geoff -- Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.openssl.

Re: reversing md5, sha

2003-09-24 Thread Geoff Thorpe
endently. > > Does it compress to one bit, or two? It compresses to zero bits, as you can easily demonstrate using an inductive proof. Cheers, Geoff -- Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geoffthorpe.net/ ___

Re: Dodgy "Microsoft fix" emails

2003-09-22 Thread Geoff Thorpe
og rings and other non-openssl mail lists exist for this sort of merriment, so please take it there. Cheers, Geoff -- Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.openssl.org/ __ OpenSSL Project

Re: "Official" way to increment SSL_SESSION reference count

2003-09-08 Thread Geoff Thorpe
Hi, On September 8, 2003 12:38 pm, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003, Geoff Thorpe wrote: [snip] > > CRYPTO_w_lock(CRYPTO_LOCK_SSL_SESSION); > > sess->references++; > > CRYPTO_w_unlock(CRYPTO_LOCK_SSL_SESSION); > > > > Oh, and than

Re: "Official" way to increment SSL_SESSION reference count

2003-09-08 Thread Geoff Thorpe
s reused later under threading circumstances, then wrap it with the appropriate locking; CRYPTO_w_lock(CRYPTO_LOCK_SSL_SESSION); sess->references++; CRYPTO_w_unlock(CRYPTO_LOCK_SSL_SESSION); Oh, and thanks for making me look at this - I've just realised the locking in ssl/ss

Re: Foundational questions

2003-09-05 Thread Geoff Thorpe
t it. There are not many situations where SSL/TLS servers (particular web-servers) ask for client authentication. Cheers, Geoff -- Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.openssl.org/ __ OpenSSL Project

Re: Need of client session reuse advice

2003-08-04 Thread Geoff Thorpe
go back and pick up all the image files too). As I say, the question is more how you identify/index SSL sessions in a satisfactory way (and with suitable granularity) so that you get the maximum performance pay-off from resumes, but without creating mistaken identities for any server that matc

Re: FQDN

2003-07-26 Thread Geoff Thorpe
/TLS, can only hold water if you define it to. But that takes you outside any reasonable definition that matters to anyone else. Anyway like Brian, that's all I have to say on this, for whatever it's worth. Cheers, Geoff -- Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geofftho

Re: FQDN

2003-07-25 Thread Geoff Thorpe
le to MITM attacks viz-a-viz the application itself, the transport used, and the differences between what it *should* consider trusted compared to what it *accepts* as trustworthy. At the SSL/TLS level, this is not MITM, it is simply communicating (and authenticating) with the

Re: FQDN

2003-07-25 Thread Geoff Thorpe
a sensible definition of MITM towards conclusions, and another working from an tautological conclusion backwards towards an unreasonable definition of MITM. Cheers, Geoff -- Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geoffthorpe.net/ _

Re: purify errors in openssl crypto

2003-07-18 Thread Geoff Thorpe
nitisation discussions are probably easy to pick up if you hit the archives. > I also notice that SHA1_Update is called from > ssleay_rand_bytes (md_rand.c, line 468) where > an ifdef for PURIFY has been added, indic

Re: SSL_CTX_free messes with external session cache

2003-03-26 Thread Geoff Thorpe
about this if > it is explained in the manual :) As someone who now has an excellent working familiarity with the API behaviour, I am sure any patches ("diff -u" format) you were to contribute in this direction would be most warmly welcomed :-) Cheers, Geoff -- Ge

Re: SSL_CTX_free messes with external session cache

2003-03-26 Thread Geoff Thorpe
em though? Are you able to do away with the internal cache, or are you committed to having sane interaction between internal and external caching? Note also that this is all IMHO, there may be others who consider the internal/external caching semantics to be fine as they are. Cheers, Geoff -- Geo

Re: Problems with DSA and engine ubsec

2003-02-14 Thread Geoff Thorpe
&t1,dsa->g,&u1, > dsa->pub_key,&u2, > dsa->p,ctx,mont)) > goto err; [snip] Cheers, Geoff -- Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.openssl.org/ ___

Re: -fomit-frame-pointer ?

2003-02-14 Thread Geoff Thorpe
ords, you should be ok. If you're in any doubt, please do the following; # ./config -f<...> -W<...> [etc - whatever flags you want] # make # make tests If you want to see the consequences of your actions in terms of performance of, for example, RSA, then run some before-and-aft

Re: libcrypto key data structures reentrant?

2003-02-12 Thread Geoff Thorpe
ff - this is covered in the "NOTE" section of the man page I've referred you to. Cheers, Geoff -- Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.openssl.org/ __ OpenSSL Project

Re: Tunneling Client Certs

2003-02-08 Thread Geoff Thorpe
ertificates and keys to understand what the interactions are and *why* private keys are not transmitted in any way. I seem to recall the stunnel site having some useful documents; http://stunnel.mirt.net/ Cheers, Geoff -- Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.openssl.org/ __

Re: engine's performance (what's wrong?)

2003-01-30 Thread Geoff Thorpe
e CHANGES entry as a guide for how to configure it - and the engines/e_gmp.c code has some other info near the top if you're interested). Cheers, Geoff -- Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.openssl.org/ __ OpenSSL Projec

Re: engine's performance (what's wrong?)

2003-01-29 Thread Geoff Thorpe
f conversion between GMP and OpenSSL bignum formats, the GMP wrapper ENGINE resulted in significant speed ups in RSA private key operations. I would suspect that on other chipsets where GMP has been actively working the speed up would be more significant still (I had reports of 3x speed

Re: engine's performance (what's wrong?)

2003-01-28 Thread Geoff Thorpe
nless you use the "-multi " switch (and it is supported on your version of openssl and host system). Looking briefly at your sample source code, that has the same problem. This is probably what is limiting the performance you are seeing - try executing a few copies of your

Re: ssltest and on-the-fly ZLIB compression

2003-01-15 Thread Geoff Thorpe
nd if that fails on protocol troubles, retry with SSLv2. Yes I know, bleurgh. Cheers, Geoff -- Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.openssl.org/ __ OpenSSL Project http

Re: Once again

2002-12-21 Thread Geoff Thorpe
, you won't get any compression unless both sides support it. Cheers, Geoff -- Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.openssl.org/ __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support

Re: Slapper denial-of-service problem - why isn't this fixed?

2002-12-21 Thread Geoff Thorpe
ets way off-topic for the list ... are we agreed then that all this discussion *is* about network I/O timouts in Apache and *not* about any SSL/TLS vulnerabilities in OpenSSL?? If not, someone say so please. Cheers, Geoff -- Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www

Re: Slapper denial-of-service problem - why isn't this fixed?

2002-12-17 Thread Geoff Thorpe
apper can hardly be relied upon - someone could easily modify it to DoS any apache servers that it can't otherwise exploit. Ie. make the virus tie up all the child-processes (doing the DoS connections from any previously exploited/controlled servers). The question however is; what *

Re: OpenSSL Project Environment Migration on 10-Dec-2002 11:00 am CET

2002-12-12 Thread Geoff Thorpe
site, especially CVSweb (um, or whatever that replacement is called). Or rsync'ing against the CVS repository. Things are ... *quicker* ... :-) Cheers, Geoff -- Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.openssl.org/ __ Op

Re: Memset not clearing sensitive data

2002-11-07 Thread Geoff Thorpe
uot; because it's just a computer that can't do anything except security. Computers that can't do anything except security are quite straightforward to create already - eg. install an SSL/TLS (or HTTPS-forwarding) proxy on a linux box and disable all other services. Cheers, Geoff --

Re: using an on-disk session caching framework

2002-10-31 Thread Geoff Thorpe
meout in minutes (so it's a constant anyway) rather than 'n' growing the number of sessions in the cache. Of course, if you don't want to thrash the disk to hell with this example technique (because this wouldn't benefit from kernel-caching like a single dbm file would), I'

Re: SUN Crypto Accelerator + OpenSSL

2002-10-07 Thread Geoff Thorpe
> Unfortunately, there is no support for that card built in to OpenSSL, > as far as I know. If I had the developpers manual for it, I could > possibly write something and test it with you. If I had access to a > machine with that accelerator, even better. Do you have the > possibility to provid

Re: Help with nasty app bug

2002-08-13 Thread Geoff Thorpe
're getting occasional premature-disconnects from the peer - which would be a reasonable assumption from the kind of "SSL3_GET_RECORD:decryption failed or bad record mac" errors you were seeing in the log. Other than that, I would need to know more. Threads? Platform? How did you configure? etc

Re: RE : openssl engine use

2002-07-25 Thread Geoff Thorpe
r-function), but at least it'll be better than zero documentation. Hopefully. Failing that - take a read of engine.h (it's relatively well self-documented) and check out the source that Frederic suggested. Cheers, Geoff -- Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: log shows connection from server, but then can't connect from internet client

2002-07-18 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, du Breuil, Bernard L ERDC-ITL-NH wrote: > It was fun. What are ipchains? Easy: patent lawyers ... or "Linux firewalling/filtering/NAT/etc" is another response I suppose - please take a browse at the innumerable Linux HOWTOs and web-pages, a simple google search should dred

Re: Re:an advise

2002-07-17 Thread Geoff Thorpe
es an idea about the range we are talking about). I have a 1Ghz AMD that is in the ballpark of the speeds you mention. [Not that anything I've just said affects the points you were making.] Cheers, Geoff -- Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: Anyone using OpenSSL for a CA or PKI Deployment?

2002-07-16 Thread Geoff Thorpe
help immensely. I haven't had a chance to play with it - but you might want to try OpenCA and see how it pans out. http://www.openca.org Good luck, Geoff -- Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pop quiz: (1) guess the nations of the following three elected leaders; (i) a war-mongering

Re: RSA public and private key lengths (newbie question)

2002-07-13 Thread Geoff Thorpe
Hi, On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, Manish Ramesh Chablani wrote: > Here is the snippet of my code which generates RSA key pair and then > saves the public and private keys in character buffer. However the output shows > the public key and private keys are of different sizes.. I was under the > impre

Re: OpenSSH 3.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.6d

2002-06-26 Thread Geoff Thorpe
Hi, On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Silvex Security Team wrote: > I am trying to configure OpenSSH 3.4P1 using OpenSSL 0.9.6d without success > > # LIBS="-ldl" CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/openssh" ./configure > --with-tcp-wrappers --with-ssl-dir=/usr/share/ssl/lib > > > > checking for getpagesize... yes > ch

Re: Compression Doubt in Specifications

2002-06-24 Thread Geoff Thorpe
Hi, On 24 Jun 2002, Shalendra Chhabra wrote: > HI > I fail to understand the following: > > In SSL 3.0, the Plaintext blocks are blocks of 2^14 > But when they are compressed it is written: > > Compression must be lossless and may not increase the content > length by more than 1024 bytes. > I ju

Re: Problem with cryptoswift card

2002-02-07 Thread Geoff Thorpe
Hi there, > I use openssl-engine-0.9.6.c in conjunction with a cryptoswift card. > To test it, I did a "openssl speed -engine cswift". > First everything seemed to work fine - astonishingly most operations > were performed in exactly 2.99 secs - but then errors occured. > I include the relevant l

Re: OpenSSL and POP3 Integration Question

2002-01-21 Thread Geoff Thorpe
Hi there, > * The OpenSSL API does not offer a call to remove the private key > information from memory as long as any TLS functionality is still > set up. > (-> reminder: check, whether the memory overwritten when performing > SSL_free()/SSL_CTX_free()..) > To be compliant with RFC2246

Re: conflicts in openssh/openssl with smartcards

2002-01-20 Thread Geoff Thorpe
Hi there, > there are two projects supporting smartcard use in openssh (that i'm > aware of): muscle (www.linuxnet.com) and citi > (www.citi.umich.edu/projects/smartcard). the citi code is included > in openssh 3.0.2p1 (didn't check older versions). > > the muscle code uses the RSA meth attribute

Re: picking the right cipher

2001-12-27 Thread Geoff Thorpe
Hi there, On Friday 28 December 2001 12:49, Patrick Li wrote: > Hi, > > I have implemented the SSL client and server applications and I will be > using them to conduct SSL sessions. Since I have control on the client > and the server, I want to find a cipher which offers strong encryption > but

Re: Importing Self Signed Cert in Oracle 8i

2001-11-20 Thread Geoff Thorpe
Hi there, I have no idea what it is that is bothering Oracle 8i about your cert(s) so I can simply make guesses here ... On Tuesday 20 November 2001 02:32, viswanath wrote: > Here are the differences found > >MY CERT|VERISIGN > > 1) 1024-bit

Re: Importing Self Signed Cert in Oracle 8i

2001-11-19 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On Tuesday 20 November 2001 00:20, viswanath wrote: > But the self signed certificate that has been generated contains the > following > > X509v3 Basic Constraints: > CA:TRUE > X509v3 Key Usage: > Certificate Sign, CRL Sign > Netscape Cert Type: > S

Re: openssl performance

2001-11-02 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On Monday 09 July 2001 13:52, Steven A. Bade wrote: > OK Stupid question Where can one find SWAMP??? There's a downloadable tarball at; http://www.geoffthorpe.net/crypto/ However, expect a heavily revamped version soon ... Cheers, Geoff __

Re: another oddball question

2001-09-20 Thread Geoff Thorpe
Hi there, On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Tom Biggs wrote: > I've got a nearly rhetorical question, but I thought I'd toss > it into the ring anyway. > > I'm wondering how much overlap there might be between _all_ of > the modulus values used across all OpenSSL modular exponentiation > calls. If there is

Re: odds of getting an all-zero result from a modexp

2001-09-19 Thread Geoff Thorpe
Hi, On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Tom Biggs wrote: > OK, so I'm not very maths-literate... > > I was just wondering what the odds are of a modular exponentiation > returning a result of zero in any OpenSSL usage of the modexp. > > It seems like odds are very much against it, but is it still > possible?

Re: Country wide anti terrorism demonstration !

2001-09-14 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Xeno Campanoli wrote: > The PC Doctor wrote: > > > > This is innappropriate for this group. I resent it, and I am against > it. I resent this too. Rather than using an OpenSSL mailing list for drumming up nationalistic emotions under the guise of compassion, could you p

Re: Does Open SSL work on win2000???

2001-07-12 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Gary Fletcher wrote: > Does Open SSL work on win2000 running Apache??? "work" is a relative word, and relative to win2000, yes OpenSSL works. Whether anything "works" in win2000 relative to proper systems is anyone's guess. Cheers, Geoff PS: OK, ":-)", just in case you we

RE: openssl-0.9.6a

2001-04-25 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > And we've stated that binary compatibility doesn't exist > > either. Given those two > > things, you'd think that OS distributions wouldn't build > > everything based on > > OpenSSL as shared libraries wouldn't you ... funny what > > people will

Re: RSA Private Encrypt

2001-03-25 Thread Geoff Thorpe
Hey there, I know the original poster already has his code working, but well ... I had already begun this reply so I'll just press on anyway! This may be of use to others now (or in the future) if they're trying to implement custom RSA_METHODs and/or ENGINEs. On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Dr S N Henson w

Re: echoping 4.1 released : a tool to test SSL servers

2001-02-23 Thread Geoff Thorpe
Hi there, Before I reply - why the cross-posting? There's been a lot of cross-posting between mod_ssl-users and openssl-users - are there good reasons for it? I can only assume that subjects fit for both lists at the same time probably involve people who are on both lists anyway ... On Wed, 14 F

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