Re: I can't believe how much this sucks

2012-11-15 Thread terr
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 09:52:49AM -0500, Sanford Staab(Gmail) wrote: In the case of openssl, a big gain would be to simply document the command line interface better and create a doc centric forum for people to add their lessons learned filed around the particular feature area of openssl.

Re: I can't believe how much this sucks

2012-11-13 Thread terr
I beg to differ and this is one reason I am not very active. Several years ago I contributed a function to determine endianess. I had done it years and years before so it was quite simple for me. I took the time to put documentation in the function. Also I am a professional consulting

Re: About compression in SSL.

2012-01-17 Thread terr
I would want to double check this. The APACHE docs found here state the following: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/ssl/ssl_faq.html How do I get SSL compression working? Although SSL compression negotiation was defined in the specification of SSLv2 and TLS, it took until May 2004 for RFC

Re: MISC request - Job opportunity - contract - Redmond, WA - IMMEDIATE NEED

2011-12-06 Thread terr
I wom't do windows When I get paid back then I might. I have three (3) unopened copies of NT 4.0 and I take it personally since it personally came from my bank account. Besides which you should not be soliciting in this channel. On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 05:06:52PM -0800,

Re: My bank has an invalid cert

2011-08-25 Thread terr
I know you are trying to help. But it doesn't help me to defer to a package manager because I'm trying to fix what the last package managers screwed up. On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 04:09:44AM -0500, Michael S. Zick wrote: On Wed August 24 2011, t...@terralogic.net wrote: Top posting to a

Re: My bank has an invalid cert

2011-08-25 Thread terr
TDWaterhouse In Canada. I'm in Calgary. THose idjots tell me to reboot my computer when their Apache servers in TO send me a misconfiguration message. I told them yesterday we build it and you break it. Something is desperatly wrong. On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 02:10:11PM -0400, Crypto Sal

Re: My bank has an invalid cert

2011-08-25 Thread terr
I already know its my certificate store. I only asked how to load in their noew root cert On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 01:09:20PM -0700, Craig White wrote: Go to an entirely different computer and try accessing - you will know if it's your computer or their certificates. If it's your

Re: My bank has an invalid cert

2011-08-25 Thread terr
Sorry http://www.tdwaterhouse.ca/ Its my old cert chain which is broken. I jsut want to go to them and ask them to supply the root cert so I can install it and get rid of the error message which Firefox generates because I can't find the root cert. On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 04:44:07PM -0400,

Re: My bank has an invalid cert

2011-08-25 Thread terr
I know the theory. I'm also a programmer. I just never bothered to install a root cert before. But I do know how to make them. I'll dig around in FireFox and see where it is and how its done. As for the bank. We build it and they break it. Not my fault. On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at

Re: My bank has an invalid cert

2011-08-25 Thread terr
Good idea. Ya. I know. But what percentage of the computers the bank deals with are filled with malware? On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 04:06:02PM -0500, Michael S. Zick wrote: On Thu August 25 2011, t...@terralogic.net wrote: Sorry http://www.tdwaterhouse.ca/ Its my old cert chain

Re: My bank has an invalid cert

2011-08-25 Thread terr
Web broker. Also they seem to have broken their web site in other ways. I just hate it when they figure they should reprogram my browser so I can't right click on a link and open in a new window. I do run multiple monitors and its nice to put a press release on one monitor and another press

Re: My bank has an invalid cert

2011-08-25 Thread terr
Very good! I can write a little code to do that! Thanx On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 05:24:14PM -0400, Crypto Sal wrote: You typically import certs through the Firefox certificate manager found via Edit - Preferences - Adv. - Encryption - View Certificates. It should be self explanatory from

My bank has an invalid cert

2011-08-24 Thread terr
I see my bank has an invalid cert. Likely I have an old cert chain. I'm running Debian Linux and firefox. Can anyone tell me where to install a valid root cert? Like what directory? I would think the bank should be able to provide the root of the chain. I'll need to know SPECICALLY what

Re: Question regarding to memory leak

2011-06-24 Thread terr
I have suggested this before. Write your own memtools. http://www.terralogic.net/developer/developer.html I tossed up a couple poor boy examples. Note the calls: struct pfa_ControlBlock chain1 = { ipfa_ControlBlock } , chain2 = { ipfa_ControlBlock }; pfa_Init( chain1,

Re: Question regarding to memory leak

2011-06-24 Thread terr
Bob, Just a little more explanation here. Suppose we have a bunch of structures allocted into the pages of memory and a connection goes sour and is timing out. Suppose our server is under substantial memory pressure. In a situation like this if _any_ structure on any active connection

Openssl: bio/crypto orthoganalization

2009-01-30 Thread terr
I've not looked at the OpenSSL code for a few years now. Last time I looked the only way to do things was via a BIO and the BIO functions did the crypto. This is totally inappropriate for many server designs. I would like to ask if the crypto/bio functions have been factored apart so they

Re: man in the middle attack over https

2007-10-03 Thread terr
Thank you very much! I never realised there was even an html attachment! I use mutt and never looked for it. Of course I know why I use mutt and this is one of the reasons why. Since I never looked at the html I never saw the bogus address. How cute eh! These financial instutions have a

Re: man in the middle attack over https

2007-10-03 Thread terr
Right. With server auth you elimate the weakenss I was thinking about a few years back. As was pointed out I didn't check for html. On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 03:55:21PM -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to ask the group about a possible man in the middle

Re: OpenSSL versus Verisign

2006-04-27 Thread terr
Go with OpenSSL On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:39:47AM -0700, Wakatou (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: Hello, My commercial company needs to secure its databases and file transmissions. We need to reassure the client that our site and his datas are secured on our application. Therefore, we need to

Re: Crypted Message trasfer across OS

2005-11-14 Thread terr
Why don't you spin through the file in the two machines and determine if they are (1) the eact same length and (2) if their contents match. While I have not been doing openssl programming for a while I am a programmer and that would the 1st thing I'd check. You should look for byte ordering as

Re: need function to get cube root

2005-08-06 Thread terr
I'll toss in my 2 cents and perhaps say something either stupid or obvious. That is that if you have a number of say 1024 bits then you can compute the cube root in 1024/3 operations where each operation in z^3. I do not know why you need the number and I do not know if this is an acceptable

Re: CPU horsepower needed to run openssl

2005-04-26 Thread terr
It depends what you mean by small. A good idea would be to see of a 200 mHz P1 will do the job. Next - if you can forward your results to me I'd be very interested. Depending what you are serving a power power processor like this should be able to keep a T1 full. But this will depend on the

Re: SSL on a hosted site

2005-01-12 Thread terr
Usually I lurk but I can offer some suggestions. 1) it will depend on the hosting company 2) certs are the same. The issue is that windows knows about certs from companies like verisign and does know know about anything you generate yourself - however technically they are the same. 3)

Re: Stripping the OpenSSL library

2003-01-09 Thread terr
I would be interested in looking at what you did. I and others in the past have run into issues with the way OpenSSL does server side I/O. Perhaps this will be part of a solution. Please advise how I can get the code. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanx On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 02:07:03PM -0500,

Re: Major problems with OpenSSL and Apache 1.3.x

2002-06-24 Thread terr
check ldconfig On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 01:10:08PM -0700, Hendrick Chan wrote: Michael, You missed the libexec that mentioned in the example of httpd.conf: LoadModule foo_module libexec/mod_foo.so Michael Piskol wrote: Hello, I'm currently working on installing OpenSSL 0.9.6

Re: Errors

2002-06-04 Thread terr
I sort of agree with the sentiments expressed by Shalendra Chhabra. The value added by M$ or verisign is questionable. I would rather I could pop over to my local bank and get a cert. They know me and I trust them. I do not trust Verisign. I have said this before in this group and I will

Re: Can I be my own CA?

2002-02-04 Thread terr
You can do it on a linux box and the only drawback that I can think of is that people will simply need to accept your certificate. If you check out equifax I think you will find that they also are a CA and you may want to check around for alternatives to Verisign. On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at

Re: Majestr Virus - Strange? MSG Body is gone but attachment looks ok.

2001-10-23 Thread terr
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 04:37:53AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did include a note and its gone so I'll resend it. I figured out what happened. I use Mutt so these viruses won't affect me... and as I was including the attachment I got the wrong file... so I postponed the message and got

off topic. re valloc

2001-03-08 Thread terr
www.gnu.org documents valloc as follows: Function: void * valloc (size_t size) Using valloc is like using memalign and passing the page size as the value of the second argument. It is implemented like this: void * valloc (size_t size) { return memalign

Reply-to: originator ??

2001-02-25 Thread terr
Maybe this will work - setting the reply to back to the originator. Those boobs were bouncing mail to the "repy to" instead of return path - then they blame everyone but themselves. At least if we set the reply to back to the originator their mail server could have flooded itself - haha.

my posts for help getting DSO and mod_blah running

2001-02-07 Thread terr
DUe to a malformed lib.so it didn't work. in apache_1.3.14+openssl_1.42 it appears the apxs script gets broken. I have it running now. I also have a sample script from a friend who helped me and I'll start going thru ot tomorrow. ... still don't know why apxs broke. I'll look into that

openssl-0.9.6 + apache-1.3.14 make errors

2001-02-05 Thread terr
There seem to be a problem with ./config shared in openssl-0.9.6 that occurs completely independantly of apache. Os=RH6.1 The problem I am running into seems to be an apache-ssl problem so I ask the pure openssl people to ignore that part of the email. This is weird. I _had_ it all working

problems resolved w/o openssl shared libs.

2001-02-05 Thread terr
This has me stumped. Do libraries cache or something? I went through this at least 10 times and used a bash script to do it all - same session even - and suddenly it is runnning. I was damn careful to try to reporoduce EXACTLY what I did before. Perhaps there is somthing in the make install

Netscape accepts cert from evil empire

2001-02-04 Thread terr
First off - I am new to this and I'm learning. I do not claim to know very much about it and asked the question in openssl-dev because it seemed to me that if the DNS is highjacked that the transaction can be masqueraded. I did a test with Netscape 4.07. This browser is not terribly old. I

Re: Netscape accepts cert from evil empire - found it!!

2001-02-04 Thread terr
Micheal, thankyou. I did find it under "more info". This sure is not obvious mind you... thanx for the clarification. On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 06:08:20PM +0100, Michael Strder wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I created a cert with the host name known as www.evilempire.com and netscape

Re: trying to understand handshake in s23_srvr.c

2001-02-03 Thread terr
I'm having a problem getting apache and openssl 0.9.6 running. I'm getting the following message. [Sat Feb 3 18:40:27 2001] [notice] Apache/1.3.14 Ben-SSL/1.42 (Unix) configured -- resuming normal operations [Sat Feb 3 18:40:27 2001] [info] Server built: Feb 3 2001 18:40:04 [Sat Feb

trying to understand handshake in s23_srvr.c apache 1.3.14 + openssl 0.9.6 solutions

2001-02-03 Thread terr
OK - I think I found it. For anyone trying to configure this there are aome pointers. 1) The httpsd.conf file found in the apache directory, typically in /usr/local/apache_1.3.14/conf is not used. The server instead looks for httpd.conf. You can grab the one Ben Laurie created and mofify

Call them ask for accts payble and bill them Re: Message status - undeliverable

2001-01-11 Thread terr
Yes - send them a bill. I think there were about 200 messages and they impacted over 100 people so that is about 20,000 messages. Management will not even HEAR about it unless you call accounts payable. SO call accounts payable and ask for the billing address... they you can be sure that

Re: your mail

2000-11-10 Thread terr
IMHO you should tell your 3rd party to use SSH and you need to do a little "educating" in your organisation. On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 02:56:05PM +, Ian Diddams wrote: I've been tasked into investigating a link a 3rd party may be making to our servers shortly over SSL. I've downloaded

RE: (HotStocks Spam) Solutions

2000-09-29 Thread terr
IMHO this is quite relevant. If you don't want people to comment on the spam then how about you show leadership here. There probably is a way - perhaps a direct tap into orbs - BUT that would affect us more than them. See - if they ISP the emails are originating from is in say ORBS then all

Spam Re Your mail

2000-08-30 Thread terr
From: "raffa aste" [EMAIL PROTECTED] There has been more than a little spam running through this list. Is there some way we can block the hosts? I'm thinking a link to orbs may be in order - or perhaps contact the relay admin and / or the ISP that these jerks connect to. I realise this might

RE: Legality - just heated up

2000-06-28 Thread terr
You don't play poker do you. There is not way that RSA has any claim to openSSL at all and outside of the US they have no claim to patent protection either. Of course, if you were a salesman sitting behind an RSA desk and you had someone dumb enough to ask - what do you think the response will

Re: patent issues (multiprimes)

2000-05-11 Thread terr
ok - I just read part of the paper. I'm not a cryptographer but I am a mathemetician and here are some trivial conclusions. the algorithm is looking for a number: N where N=p*q for two primes p and q of relatively the same size. If you look at the _original_ equations developed by

Re: patent issues

2000-05-01 Thread terr
OpenSSL so far is patent free and probably will remain generally so unless some hotshot chooses to try to patent something which has already been done - but they don't know about. This has happened - I have examples. RSA's stuff is patented in the US only and it expires as you say in Sept. Thus

Re: Verisign/NSI/Thawte monopoly

2000-03-30 Thread terr
You missed my point. Read on... b) Certificates authenticate that the person is who they say they are. Trust goes to trusting that second statement, not the trustworthiness of the company behind the statement. People in general presume that when they see the little key that

RE: Verisign/NSI/Thawte monopoly

2000-03-28 Thread terr
I looked closely into purchasing a cert from Thawte and it is still something WE'll have to do. What strikes me though is that it seems to me that there is no real value in such a thing. I can for instance incorporate a company and shell out about $200 and get my cert. After that everyone