Hi Radhakrishna,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org On Behalf Of Radha krishna Meduri -X 
> (radmedur - HCL at Cisco)
>
>
>
> Hi Patrick
>
> We have one more update
>
> [r...@acsxp-srv3 radha]#
> [r...@acsxp-srv3 radha]# /opt/CSCOacsxp/.system/openssl crl
> -in abcd.crl
> -text
> unable to load CRL
> 13202:error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start
> line:pem_lib.c:642:Expecting: X509 CRL
> [r...@acsxp-srv3 radha]#
> [r...@acsxp-srv3 radha]# /opt/CSCOacsxp/.system/openssl crl
> -inform DER
> -in abcd.crl -text | more
> Certificate Revocation List (CRL):
>         Version 2 (0x1)
>         Signature Algorithm: sha1WithRSAEncryption
>         Issuer: /C=US/DC=COM/DC=NWA/DC=PAD/O=Northwest Airlines
> Inc/OU=PAD/CN=Northwest Airlines PAD Low Assurance Issuing CA
>         Last Update: Sep 30 04:54:00 2009 GMT
> <removed lower part>
>
> If you observe first command I did not mentioned "-inform"
> switch which
> failed to load but later command succeeded with that option. Why is it
> so?

Because your CRL is DER-encoded, but you tell openssl that it is PEM-encoded 
(the default).

> Basically customer certificate was in DER format.

Only the format of your CRL is of interest here.

> If CRL was in DER
> format, is it mandatory to mention "-inform DER" in the command line?

That's what I wrote in my last mail. Please check again my answer and the 
documentation.

Cheers,
Patrick Eisenacher


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org On Behalf Of Radha krishna Meduri -X 
> (radmedur - HCL at Cisco)
>
>
> Hi Patrick Eisenacher
>
> I converted this crl to PEM format which worked like charm.
> Is there any
> restriction like CRL's should be in PEM for mat only?
>
> Thanks
> Radhakrishna.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org On Behalf Of Eisenacher, Patrick
>
> Hi Radhakrishna,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-openssl-users On Behalf Of Radha krishna Meduri -X
> >
> > I am not able to load the crl in text format and I am getting
> > following error while issuing following command "openssl crl -in
> abcd.crl -text"
> >
> > unable to load CRL
> > 28950:error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start
> > line:pem_lib.c:642:Expecting: X509 CRL
> >
> > Any idea what could be issue?
>
> that means that abcd.crl has no proper PEM-encoding (base64
> plus header
> and footer). The error messages states that openssl can't find the
> header. For more info about the header and footer, see
> http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/crl.html#NOTES
>
> HTH,
> Patrick Eisenacher
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