Re: Testing DSA ciphersuites..

2007-08-27 Thread Nelson B
Steffen Schulz wrote: > Is there a reason for not activating TLS ciphersuites by default? Yes, backwards binary compatibility. It is common for old products to replace their old NSS shared libraries with the latest ones to obtain the latest bug fixes (and/or vulnerability fixes). They do not wa

Re: Testing DSA ciphersuites..

2007-08-26 Thread Steffen Schulz
On 070825 at 02:10, Nelson B wrote: > IIRC, the problem is not DSA but rather DHE. NSS does not presently > support any DHE cipher suites on the server side, and it so happens > that all the DSA cipher suites are also DHE cipher suites. IIRC, > the missing code is not for DSA but for DHE. The is

Re: Testing DSA ciphersuites..

2007-08-24 Thread Steffen Schulz
On 070824 at 03:20, Wan-Teh Chang wrote: > > Is usage of DSA-suites disencouraged? How can I test them? > No, the use of DSA ciphersuites is not discouraged. But we haven't > implemented DSA ciphersuites on the server side. They are only > implemented on the client side. I believe this is the pr

Re: Testing DSA ciphersuites..

2007-08-24 Thread Nelson B
Wan-Teh Chang wrote: > On 8/23/07, Steffen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I want to test DSA ciphersuites, but 'server' and 'selfsrv' seem to be >> unable to handle them. >> >> I changed the source to enable some TLS-DSA suites but it seems >> the ssl library is not being supplied w

Re: Testing DSA ciphersuites..

2007-08-24 Thread Steffen Schulz
On 070824 at 16:47, Wan-Teh Chang wrote: > On 8/24/07, Steffen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, most of the missing code is in the SSL library. There is a > work-in-progress patch in the bug report for this feature: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102794 I see. No, I'm cu

Re: Testing DSA ciphersuites..

2007-08-24 Thread Wan-Teh Chang
On 8/24/07, Steffen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Okay. How much is missing to use DSA-suites in the 'server' sample > program? The calls to look up the certificate and supply it to ssl look > rather generic. OTOH, the server signing routines in the ssl library > seem to be missing.. Yes,

Re: Testing DSA ciphersuites..

2007-08-24 Thread Steffen Schulz
On 070824 at 03:20, Wan-Teh Chang wrote: > > Is usage of DSA-suites disencouraged? How can I test them? > No, the use of DSA ciphersuites is not discouraged. But we haven't > implemented DSA ciphersuites on the server side. They are only > implemented on the client side. I believe this is the pr

Re: Testing DSA ciphersuites..

2007-08-23 Thread Wan-Teh Chang
On 8/23/07, Steffen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > I want to test DSA ciphersuites, but 'server' and 'selfsrv' seem to be > unable to handle them. > > I changed the source to enable some TLS-DSA suites but it seems > the ssl library is not being supplied with a valid certificate. > >

Testing DSA ciphersuites..

2007-08-23 Thread Steffen Schulz
Hi, I want to test DSA ciphersuites, but 'server' and 'selfsrv' seem to be unable to handle them. I changed the source to enable some TLS-DSA suites but it seems the ssl library is not being supplied with a valid certificate. I created the dsa certificates with: openssl pkcs12 -export -in dsa