Re: [openssl-users] OpenSSL vs GPG for encrypting files? Security best practices?

2018-11-03 Thread Hanno Böck
d cipher modes (cbc, cfb, ofb, ecb) and has exactly the malleability vulnerability the original poster was asking about (including a wide variety of obscure and some insecure ciphers). I don't think this should be recommended. -- Hanno Böck https://hboeck.de/ mail/jabber: ha...@

Re: [openssl-users] OpenSSL vs GPG for encrypting files? Security best practices?

2018-11-02 Thread Hanno Böck
s not really an authenticated encryption mode, but it comes close. -- Hanno Böck https://hboeck.de/ mail/jabber: ha...@hboeck.de GPG: FE73757FA60E4E21B937579FA5880072BBB51E42 -- openssl-users mailing list To unsubscribe: https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-users

[openssl-users] TLS 1.3 compatibility issues with OpenSSL 1.1.1 prereleases, please stop using them

2018-10-16 Thread Hanno Böck
S 1.3 version with a client that uses the final TLS 1.3 version. This obviously fails. Long story short: If you happen to use such an OpenSSL pre version you'll likely have connection issues as more and more software will support TLS 1.3. So please update as soon as possible. -- Hanno

Re: [openssl-users] Bleichenbacher Vulnerability

2017-12-20 Thread Hanno Böck
plausibly keep this secure. Bleichenbacher attacks may be the least of your worries. -- Hanno Böck https://hboeck.de/ mail/jabber: ha...@hboeck.de GPG: FE73757FA60E4E21B937579FA5880072BBB51E42 -- openssl-users mailing list To unsubscribe: https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-users

Re: [openssl-users] AES-256 Do I need random IV?

2017-04-27 Thread Hanno Böck
articular cipher mode. For GCM using random IVs is not exactly recommended, better use a counter if you can keep state. But if you only encrypt small amounts of data per key a random IV is doable. -- Hanno Böck https://hboeck.de/ mail/jabber: ha...@hboeck.de GPG: FE73757FA60E4E21B937579FA5880072BBB5

Re: [openssl-users] More secure use of DSA?

2016-09-02 Thread Hanno Böck
On Fri, 2 Sep 2016 13:29:31 -0400 Leam Hall wrote: > Do you have something I can read up on? A couple: https://rdist.root.org/2010/11/19/dsa-requirements-for-random-k-value/ https://cr.yp.to/talks/2015.01.07/slides-djb-20150107-a4.pdf https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/262.pdf -- Hanno Böck ht

Re: [openssl-users] DSA with OpenSSL-1.1

2016-07-01 Thread Hanno Böck
my (and I think most others) impression is that DSA in TLS is as dead as it can be and probably the most sane move for OpenSSL would be to just remove it. Given that I'd like to know why you seem to have chosen to still use DSA. -- Hanno Böck https://hboeck.de/ mail/jabber: ha...@hboeck.de G

Re: [openssl-users] BIO_read hangs, how can I know if the server wants to send data?

2016-04-26 Thread Hanno Böck
etty far away from openssl, so I hope nobody is annoyed by offtopic discussion (and I think we can close it here), just as people were speculating and it seemed to have generated quite some interest I wanted to give a final answer what the cause was. -- Hanno Böck https://hboeck.de/ mail/ja

Re: [openssl-users] BIO_read hangs, how can I know if the server wants to send data?

2016-04-26 Thread Hanno Böck
was it. if I look at the data coming that's exactly how it looks like. (I still wonder why apache does that - for a 404 error page - but at least now I know what's going on) -- Hanno Böck https://hboeck.de/ mail/jabber: ha...@hboeck.de GPG: BBB51E42 pgpxK76e7wkmt.pgp Description:

Re: [openssl-users] BIO_read hangs, how can I know if the server wants to send data?

2016-04-26 Thread Hanno Böck
n the protocol level? Are these TLS records? TCP packets? Is there something horribly wrong with my server config because it splits them up in so many small parts? -- Hanno Böck https://hboeck.de/ mail/jabber: ha...@hboeck.de GPG: BBB51E42 pgpRMVHUyuZPY.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital sign

[openssl-users] BIO_read hangs, how can I know if the server wants to send data?

2016-04-26 Thread Hanno Böck
which of the three), using a nonblocking bio (but that was totally confusing) etc. Any help apprechiated. -- Hanno Böck https://hboeck.de/ mail/jabber: ha...@hboeck.de GPG: BBB51E42 #include int main() { SSL_CTX *ctx; BIO *bio; SSL *ssl; char *buf[1024]; int r, i; char *request = "GET

Re: Re?: How to make a secure tcp connection without using certificate

2014-05-25 Thread Hanno Böck
true. Some clients (e.g. all common browsers) do fallbacks that in fact can invalidate all improvements of later tls versions. These fallbacks also can happen by accident (e.g. bad connections) and sometimes disable features like SNI. That's why I recommend to everyone that we need at least t

Re: RSASSA-PSS command

2014-04-17 Thread Hanno Böck
things here: a) you can create RSASSA-PSS signatures with normal RSA key type. Openssl supports that. b) You can have specific RSASSA-PSS-only-keys that are not allowed to do anything else. No support in OpenSSL as far as I know. -- Hanno Böck http://hboeck.de/ mail/jabber: ha...@hboeck.de GP

Re: RSASSA-PSS command

2014-04-17 Thread Hanno Böck
ware out there capable of creating such "PSS-only"-keys was the IAIK java library. [1] http://rsapss.hboeck.de/ -- Hanno Böck http://hboeck.de/ mail/jabber: ha...@hboeck.de GPG: BBB51E42 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Coverity Scan: Would/DId It Catch the Heartbleed Defect?

2014-04-16 Thread Hanno Böck
On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 05:25:58 -0500 Tom Browder wrote: > Is OpenSSL participating in the Coverity free scanning program for > open source software? Don't know. > If not, it might have caught the Heartbleed > bug. No. http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1128 -- Hanno Böck http:/

Re: Converting a root certificate from md5 to sha1

2014-04-15 Thread Hanno Böck
th all the same parameters and just a new signature, but I'm not sure. Others may know more. -- Hanno Böck http://hboeck.de/ mail/jabber: ha...@hboeck.de GPG: BBB51E42 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Who uses heartbeat?

2014-04-13 Thread Hanno Böck
On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 13:12:41 +0200 Graham Leggett wrote: > On 13 Apr 2014, at 12:25 PM, Hanno Böck wrote: > > > Is there any software out there that doees anything with heatbeat? > > And more specifically: If there is, is it using TCP or UDP? > > The RFC answers th

Who uses heartbeat?

2014-04-13 Thread Hanno Böck
n practise. Is there any software out there that doees anything with heatbeat? And more specifically: If there is, is it using TCP or UDP? cu, -- Hanno Böck http://hboeck.de/ mail/jabber: ha...@hboeck.de GPG: BBB51E42 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Extracting of key exchange (DH / DHE) parameters of a connection

2014-04-06 Thread Hanno Böck
;d also be happy with pointers to any other tool beside openssl that is capable of doing so (preferrably free, commandline and linux-compatible). cu, -- Hanno Böck http://hboeck.de/ mail/jabber: ha...@hboeck.de GPG: BBB51E42 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Reading digest algorithm from x509

2012-06-18 Thread Hanno Böck
can be more complex, but you won't find any of them in the wild. You'll also rarely find anything else than sha1 today - md5 and earlier are (luckily) almost distinct and for strange reasons CAs seem to resist the idea of replacing sha1 with the more secure sha256/sha512-algorithms. --

Re: Is Sha2 supported for signing certs?

2012-06-13 Thread Hanno Böck
;t work, because there is no sha2-algorithm. sha2 is an (afaik inofficial) name for a whole number of functions - sha256, sha384, sha512 and sha224. -- Hanno Böck mail/jabber: ha...@hboeck.de GPG: BBB51E42 http://www.hboeck.de/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: SubjectAltName in a wildcard certificate - is this possible?

2012-05-12 Thread Hanno Böck
ithout a second level domain - * only matches one domainpart. For example, *.env does not match abc.abc.env - you'd need *.*.env then -- Hanno Böck mail/jabber: ha...@hboeck.de GPG: BBB51E42 http://www.hboeck.de/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

ECDH vs. ECDHE

2012-04-30 Thread Hanno Böck
y exchange" (and I'm also - cryptographically - aware what that means - perfect forward secrecy and such). What is ECDHE, is it "better" than just ECDH and what's the difference? Yours, -- Hanno Böck mail/jabber: ha...@hboeck.de GPG: BBB51E42 http://ww

[PATCH] allow setting make command via env var

2008-06-02 Thread Hanno Böck
Taken from Gentoo Linux, please apply. -- Hanno Böck Blog: http://www.hboeck.de/ GPG: 3DBD3B20 Jabber/Mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] respect $MAKE if it is set in the environment so we don't get a mix of the host `make` and whatever $MAKE is set to when recu

[PATCH] Enable setting CC and AR with environment vars

2008-06-02 Thread Hanno Böck
This patch allows the Configure script to detect the ar and cc command via environment variables. Taken from Gentoo package. Please apply. -- Hanno Böck Blog: http://www.hboeck.de/ GPG: 3DBD3B20 Jabber/Mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Configure +++ Configure