On Sat, Aug 27, 2005, SPE - Stani's Python Editor wrote:
> 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')]
>
That report doesn't help much unfortunately. A UniveralString must be a
multiple of 4 octets in length, which is the cause of that error.
However in normal usage UniversalStrings should almost never be encountered,
so I suspect some odd or invalid calls are being made by the wrapper.
Steve.
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