Well, I can answer my own question here.  This occurs when you put the 
exact same information in your certificate as you have in your CA.

Skadz

Ryan P Skadberg writes:
 > Hopefully someone has an answer to this.  I saw the question once in
 > the archives, but no answers :(
 > 
 > I have compiled and installed bother OpenSSL 0.9.3 and 0.9.3a and have 
 > the same problem with both.  I used:
 > 
 > ./config rsaref -L`pwd`/rsaref-2.0/local
 > 
 > It used solaris-usparc-oldgcc as the platform.  Make test seemed ok.
 > O then did a make install, and added /usr/local/ssl/bin to my path.
 > 
 > I ran the following:
 > 
 > /usr/local/ssl/misc/CA.pl -newca
 > /usr/local/ssl/misc/CA.pl -newreq
 > /usr/local/ssl/misc/CA.pl -sign
 > 
 > These all seemed fine.  I then ran:
 > 
 > openssl verify -verbose -CAfile cacert.pem newcert.pem
 > 
 > And I got:
 > 
 > newcert.pem: /C=US/ST=Texas/L=Austin/O=CT/CN=The Admin
 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 > error 7 at 0 depth lookup:certificate signature failure
 > 15676:error:1E06F401:RSAref
 > routines:RSA_REF_PUBLIC_DECRYPT:data:rsaref.c:254:
 > 15676:error:0D079006:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_verify:bad get asn1
 > object call:a_verify.c:106:
 > 
 > I also tried very similar stuff on a linux box and got pretty much the 
 > same error.  I tried searching through whatever I could find and have
 > yet to come up with an answer, so any help would be appreciated.
 > 
 > Thanks!
 > Skadz
 > 
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