[Cryptography Team] Debugging SSL on Linux

Robert Withers reefedjib at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 21 13:27:44 UTC 2007


That's great Norbert.  Could you also test with:

ASN.27
SSL.111
X509.33

I fixed a bug and turned off a feature that were causing problems.  I  
have been unable to connect to your server in all cases.

thanks,
Robert

On Mar 21, 2007, at 1:23 AM, Norbert Hartl wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 15:25 -0700, Robert Withers wrote:
>> Hey Ron,
>>
>>
>> You are back on the SSL version.  The latest is SSL.111.  You are
>> missing all of the Certificate validation code that I put in and this
>> is why you are able to connect, since all of the problems in this  
>> case
>> are with validation.  Since you have the latest X509, you are  
>> decoding
>> the CertificateExtensions, which would expose problems 2 and 3, but
>> you aren't encoding them for signature validation, per the above
>> reason, so you never have a problem.
>>
>>
>> Norbert, if you load SSL.109 it should work, while we get this issue
>> fixed.  This is just missing a lot of security.
>>
>>
> Yes, with 109 I can connect to my server and retrieve a document.
>
> Thanks very much,
>
> Norbert
>



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