Re: X509_verify_cert() wierdness

2000-09-08 Thread Nicolas Roumiantzeff
Thank you for your quick answer. I was indeed using an older version. I'll get a hand on 0.9.5a... Nicolas Roumiantzeff -Message d'origine- De : Dr S N Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date : vendredi 8 septembre

Re: X509_verify_cert() wierdness

2000-09-08 Thread Nicolas Roumiantzeff
not bypass some security checking (I have test that expired and not yet issued certificates checking are not bypassed but there might be things that I cant think of). Thank you... Nicolas Roumiantzeff P.S. David, if you have solved your problem, and if you are still hooked up on this list

Re: Piping into PEM pass phrase!!!

2000-08-01 Thread Nicolas Roumiantzeff
with unix. There might be simpler ways... Nicolas Roumiantzeff. -Message d'origine- De : Markus Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date : lundi 31 juillet 2000 22:00 Objet : Piping into PEM pass phrase!!! >Hello, > >I am building

Re: automating genrsa a little bit more...

2000-02-08 Thread Nicolas Roumiantzeff
Under Windows you can use WriteConsole to specify the passphrase but it is a little intricate program (create a process, create a console, inherit the console, redirect standard input...) and I don't know if there are equivalent solution for other systems. Nicolas Roumiantzeff. >Norber

Re: Browsers don't like my certificates?

2000-02-03 Thread Nicolas Roumiantzeff
>Anybody? This worked three months ago Sounds like one of the certificates in the chain expired. Nicolas Roumiantzeff. -Message d'origine- De : Garrett Wollman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date : mercredi 2 février 2000 22:53

Re: CApath argument and Hash function

2000-01-27 Thread Nicolas Roumiantzeff
r example. Nicolas Roumiantzeff. __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List[EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Seeking officers for Free-software-friendly CA

2000-01-11 Thread Nicolas Roumiantzeff
enough in IE itself ;-) Suscribe to the Microsoft Product Security Notification Service and you will get an average of one bulletin with a new security issue every other week! http://www.microsoft.com/security/services/bulletin.asp?ID=8&Parent=2 Is the ActiveX you mensioned marked as safe

Re: Seeking officers for Free-software-friendly CA

2000-01-07 Thread Nicolas Roumiantzeff
difference between installing a CA cert through a secured SSL connection and through an unsecured connection. 2) And most important, with the ActiveX and Plug-in/SmatUpdate scheme, you can automatically detect if the CA cert has already been installed or not. Nicolas Roumiantzeff. Note: re-reading Pete

Re: Seeking officers for Free-software-friendly CA

2000-01-05 Thread Nicolas Roumiantzeff
browser (this includes trusting Netscape or Microsoft and the way he got it) - Verisign (or an other pre-installed CA) - the new CA Maybe you could elaborate... Nicolas Roumiantzeff. Note: in the meantime I poped a message from Pete Chown describing an analog (same?) solution on th

Re: Seeking officers for Free-software-friendly CA

2000-01-04 Thread Nicolas Roumiantzeff
t in using Verisign certificate instead of a self generated sertificate any way. And for e-mail certificate, a web-of-trust à-la PGP is better than a Verisign user ID from my point of view (an e-mail address can be easily spoofed I belive). Nicolas Roumiantzeff. -Message d'origine- De

Re: Non-blocking I/O help

1999-12-20 Thread Nicolas Roumiantzeff
begining of the SSL handshake instead of continuing from the point it previously failed. But maybe I didn't understood how to do it right or maybe this problem has been solved in the latest OpenSSL release. Nicolas Roumiantzeff. -Message d'origine- De : Bodo Moeller <[EMAIL

Re: RSA Security and Red Hat, Inc. Sign Licensing Agreement

1999-11-30 Thread Nicolas Roumiantzeff
Does anybody know why both IE and Netscape browser implement exclusively RSA certificates? My feeling is that Microsoft and Netscape both made a deal with RSA Security to get a "low" price RSA license at the condition of not implementing DSA. Nicolas Roumiantzeff. -Message d'

Re: OpenSSL usage liability.

1999-11-26 Thread Nicolas Roumiantzeff
OpenSSL after all? Nicolas Roumiantzeff. -Message d'origine- De : Claudio M. Horvilleur Mtz. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date : vendredi 26 novembre 1999 04:15 Objet : Re: OpenSSL usage liability. >Not exactly right, the US are changing

Re: Good Algorithm

1999-11-25 Thread Nicolas Roumiantzeff
Thank you Bodo. So is there any reason why the combination DH_DSS_RC4 is not available among the SSL cipher suites. It seems like DSS is always associated with DES, never RC4. Nicolas Roumiantzeff. -Message d'origine- De : Bodo Moeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> À : [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Question about Browser Authenticity

1999-11-17 Thread Nicolas Roumiantzeff
JAR file for Netscape. >But both don't solve the boostrap problem: >How do you get secure system you can start from ? Of course. Nicolas Roumiantzeff. __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openss

Re: Compiling OpenSSL without 3DES

1999-11-16 Thread Nicolas Roumiantzeff
At last I said someting that is not totaly stupid after all ;-) Good night Ben... Nicolas -Message d'origine- De : Ben Laurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date : mardi 16 novembre 1999 18:30 Objet : Re: Compiling OpenSSL withou

Re: Question about Browser Authenticity

1999-11-16 Thread Nicolas Roumiantzeff
Downloading each new browser version using HTTPS (with the previous release) would be advisable. Nicolas Roumiantzeff. -Message d'origine- De : Harry Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date : mardi 16 novembre 1999 06:34 Objet

Re: Compiling OpenSSL without 3DES

1999-11-16 Thread Nicolas Roumiantzeff
inds the specification to be of technical interest and completely specified." -------- Nicolas Roumiantzeff. PS: by any chance, Bruno, have you been through the ENTPE? (nothing to do with a new crypto algorithm;-) ___

Re: Compiling OpenSSL without 3DES

1999-11-15 Thread Nicolas Roumiantzeff
Could you describe this "meet-in-the-middle" attack on the 3-DES? Nicolas Roumiantzeff. -Message d'origine- De : Ben Laurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date : vendredi 12 novembre 1999 20:13 Objet : Re: Compiling Open

Re: Compiling OpenSSL without 3DES

1999-11-15 Thread Nicolas Roumiantzeff
But for the French authorities you would have to prove taht DES is a group. Beside, the 3-DES implementation used in SSL is not exactly a composition of 3 DES function (the initial and final seps of the DES algorithm are done only once instead of 3 times). Nicolas Roumiantzeff. >And whethe

Re: Compiling OpenSSL without 3DES

1999-11-12 Thread Nicolas Roumiantzeff
slightly different from the typical Triple DES and uses 3 different keys of 8 bytes each (56 bits effective) for a total effective key length of 168 bits. Nicolas Roumiantzeff. -Message d'origine- De : Ben Laurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: OpenSSL usage liability.

1999-01-17 Thread Nicolas Roumiantzeff
>US is far away from OpenSSL, and will probably remain that way for >some time, unless the US export law changes radically. You mean next month (Dec 15, 1999). Nicolas Roumiantzeff. __ OpenSSL P

Re: OpenSSL and Mac OS and export fun

1999-01-17 Thread Nicolas Roumiantzeff
128-bit rot13 is would not be allowed. They seem >preoccupied with bits. You seem to mean that 3DES is not harder to crack than any 56-bit encryption. I know that DES cipher texts have been been cracked but do you have example where 3DES was crac