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

2014-05-30 Thread Jakob Bohm
On 5/30/2014 12:03 AM, Dave Thompson wrote: From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org On Behalf Of Jakob Bohm Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 13:04 On 5/25/2014 2:22 PM, Hanno Böck wrote: Some clients (e.g. all common browsers) do fallbacks that in fact can invalidate all improvements of later

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

2014-05-29 Thread Dave Thompson
From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org On Behalf Of Jakob Bohm Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 13:04 On 5/25/2014 2:22 PM, Hanno Böck wrote: Some clients (e.g. all common browsers) do fallbacks that in fact can invalidate all improvements of later tls versions. These fallbacks also can

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

2014-05-28 Thread Jakob Bohm
On 5/25/2014 2:22 PM, Hanno Böck wrote: On Fri, 23 May 2014 16:32:15 + Viktor Dukhovni openssl-us...@dukhovni.org wrote: On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 06:11:05PM +0200, nicolas@free.fr wrote: use at the very least TLSv1 (and preferably TLSv1_2) protocol if you want to use

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

2014-05-25 Thread Hanno Böck
On Fri, 23 May 2014 16:32:15 + Viktor Dukhovni openssl-us...@dukhovni.org wrote: On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 06:11:05PM +0200, nicolas@free.fr wrote: use at the very least TLSv1 (and preferably TLSv1_2) protocol if you want to use SSLv23_server_method(), don't forget to disable SSLv2

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

2014-05-25 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 02:22:34PM +0200, Hanno B?ck wrote: Typically, leaving SSLv3 enabled is just fine if both ends support something stronger they'll negotiate that. That's not always true. In a browser fallback (only relevant here if the OP is implementing an HTTP server) nothing

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

2014-05-23 Thread Bernhard Fröhlich
Am 23.05.2014 14:16, schrieb Subrata Dasgupta: Hello Sir / Madam, I am very much new to openssl programming. I want to make a TCP connection secure using openssl. I do not want to use any certificate or keys.. Is it possible to make a TCP connection secure without using certificate or keys??

RE: How to make a secure tcp connection without using certificate

2014-05-23 Thread Michael Wojcik
There's no such thing as a secure TCP conversation, or any other communication channel, except in the context of a threat model - and even then security only applies in relative terms, to things like risk probabililties and costs. Security is not an absolute condition. Thus there's no way to

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

2014-05-23 Thread nicolas . kox
Hi, not really answering the initial question, but these could be some good advices : first of all, upgrade your library to the latest version (1.0.1g I think), the one you're using seems a bit old and download is free ;-p second, you should avoid SSLv2, it is not secure anymore, and since a

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

2014-05-23 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 06:11:05PM +0200, nicolas@free.fr wrote: use at the very least TLSv1 (and preferably TLSv1_2) protocol if you want to use SSLv23_server_method(), don't forget to disable SSLv2 and 3 protocols (and maybe TLSv1) with the command SSL_CTX_set_options(ctx,

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

2014-05-23 Thread nicolas . kox
communication Nico - Mail d'origine - De: Viktor Dukhovni openssl-us...@dukhovni.org À: openssl-users@openssl.org Envoyé: Fri, 23 May 2014 18:32:15 +0200 (CEST) Objet: Re: Re?: How to make a secure tcp connection without using certificate On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 06:11:05PM +0200, nicolas