Hi,
I try to create a certificate request with 'Certificate Authority' as CN. If fails with the crypto error: ('asn1 encoding routines', 'ASN1_mbstring_ncopy', 'invalid universalstring length') What does this mean? Does anybody knows how this could be solved or point me in the direction?
Thanks,
Stani

http://pythonide.stani.be

PS I used pyOpenSSL, but this problem is probably generic. This is the python traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):

 File "C:\Python24\Scripts\webcleaner-certificates", line 113, in ?

   main(sys.argv[1:])

 File "C:\Python24\Scripts\webcleaner-certificates", line 105, in main

   install_ssl_certs(configdir)

File "C:\Python24\Scripts\webcleaner-certificates", line 61, in install_ssl_certs

   wc.proxy.ssl.create_certificates(configdir)

File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\wc\proxy\ssl.py", line 109, in create_certificates

   careq = createCertRequest(cakey, CN='Certificate Authority')

File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\wc\proxy\ssl.py", line 179, in createCertRequest

   setattr(subj, key, value)

OpenSSL.crypto.Error: [('asn1 encoding routines', 'ASN1_mbstring_ncopy', 'invalid universalstring length')]


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