Hi Stefan,

On 2013-05-08, at 5:58 AM, Stefan H. Holek wrote:

> Hi Patrick,
> 
> The 'keyid' keyword in this case means 'copy from signing cert'. To add 
> arbitrary values to certificate extensions, you must use the 'arbitrary 
> extension format':
> 
> http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/x509v3_config.html#ARBITRARY_EXTENSIONS
> http://www.openssl.org/docs/crypto/ASN1_generate_nconf.html#GENERATION_STRING_FORMAT
> 

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. In case anyone has to do this 
again, the correct incantation appears to be:

[ user_with_bad_aki ]
authorityKeyIdentifier          = ASN1:SEQUENCE:bad_aki

[ bad_aki ]
keyIdentifier = FORMAT:HEX,EXPLICIT:0,OCTETSTRING:0102030405060708090A

Cheers,

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Patrick Patterson
Chief PKI Architect
Carillon Information Security Inc.
http://www.carillon.ca





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