RE: please help with understanding client authentication

2000-08-09 Thread EXT-Mike . Savard
Hi Randal, I am trying to get OpenSSL to import private key files. I am kinda blown away with this, too. So any info we can get will be much appreciated. -Original Message- From: EXT Randall Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 1:28 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: please help with understanding client authentication

2000-08-09 Thread Peter Sylvester
> I've been building a small https client & everything has gone quite well. > Now I've been told that I need to include support for client authentication > using a standard x.509 certificate & I am stumped. How do you manage client trust to your server? how do you know that you are really communi

RE: please help with understanding client authentication

2000-08-09 Thread Jon Sjoberg
The certificate can be an ASN1 or PEM format file. To use a certificate, you must also have a private key file (also in PEM or ASN1 format). The certificate must be the public key for the private key file. Both of these files can be created using the openssl utility. Example: Generate a 1024 b

Re: please help with understanding client authentication

2000-08-09 Thread Goetz Babin-Ebell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi Randal, > > I am trying to get OpenSSL to import private key files. You can load a private key with PEM_read_PrivateKey() (defined in openssl/pem.h) > -Original Message- > From: EXT Randall Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2