Hello, I'm trying to generate a test certificate from thawte.com, for a mail server, who's necesite PEM encoded certs. When i paste my csr cert request , i receive from thawte, after selected PEM cert ,the following messages Can not generate output PEM from non-input PEM. Are there some specials parameters when generate private key as PEM encoded ? I used this for my private key openssl genrsa -des3 -out name.key 1024 an then opnssl req -new -key name.key -out server.csr or opnssl req -new -key name.key -out server.csr.pem Could someone help me about create PEM encoded certification request ? Thanks a lot -- Frederic d'Huart System Administrator Tiscali Belgium [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +322 4000877 Fax: +322 4000899 ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]