Re: client certificates unusable?

2009-03-19 Thread Joe Orton
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 07:42:12AM -0700, Kyle Hamilton wrote: > I think a reasonable default would be about 10 or 15 minutes, with a > refresh of the session (moving it back to 0 minutes) every successful > request? With the default mod_ssl cache, I think that the session should already get stor

Re: client certificates unusable?

2009-03-18 Thread Joe Orton
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:26:35AM -0700, Robert Relyea wrote: > Cert selection for Firefox does need to be improved. On the other hand, > I found the larger memory footprint argument someone confusing. At the > cost of about 20 bytes per client you would rather chew up CPU and > network reso

Re: client certificates unusable?

2009-03-17 Thread Joe Orton
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 02:39:56PM +0200, Eddy Nigg wrote: > On 03/17/2009 01:55 PM, Ian G: >> [4] There is some discussion about session caching, and it may be true >> that there are server problems to be sorted out. But as far as I can >> see, most of the sites that I deal with have this iss

Re: About the Cybertrust Educational CA certificate

2008-10-09 Thread Joe Orton
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 05:06:55PM -0700, Wan-Teh Chang wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Eddy Nigg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I've been banging my head against a wall here because of this FUD and > > about misinformation which is absolutely incorrect. Sad, because there > > are man

Re: Comparison of OpenSSL and NSS

2008-07-28 Thread Joe Orton
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 05:17:56PM -0700, Nelson Bolyard wrote: > Daniel Stenberg wrote, On 2008-07-26 13:45: > > > As a user of OpenSSL, NSS, yassl and GnuTLS I can certainly agree that > > GnuTLS has flaws in its API but NSS most certainly also has flaws as well > > _and_ notable missing feature

PKCS#11 changes in NSS 3.12 softokn?

2008-07-09 Thread Joe Orton
For a test suite I'm importing a PKCS#12 cert into a fresh database as follows: rm -rf nssdb echo foobar > nssdb.pw ${CERTUTIL} -d nssdb -N -f nssdb.pw ${PK12UTIL} -d nssdb -K foobar -W '' -i unclient.p12 and then using that database with the softokn PKCS#11 module. With NSS 3.11, doin

PKCS#11 software token & concurrent database access

2008-02-07 Thread Joe Orton
Hi. When using the libsoftokn3.so PKCS#11 provider, is it safe to open a read-only session to a database which is opened read-write by another process (e.g. Firefox)? (By "safe", I mean simply that the provider will not crash and burn if Firefox modifies something underneath it) joe _

Re: SSL/TLS upgrades - RFC2817

2006-04-07 Thread Joe Orton
2817-style upgrades were added to mod_ssl I think purely as a well-intentioned (but perhaps naive) attempt to solve the SSL vs name-based virtual hosting problem, which is something we see Apache users ask for, and get confused by, almost daily. I agree it is basically useless: you didn't ment