Try with empty challenge:

see
http://luke.breuer.com/time/item/Generating_an_SSL_certificate_on_Windows_without_IIS/634.aspx


On 03/07/2014 20:52, Michael Sierchio wrote:
> My Windoze knowledge is hazy, and from the distant past, but if you're
> running this in a CMD window, you may simply need to increase the
> available memory from the default for that process.
>
> - M
>
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Steven Kinney
> <steven.kin...@ers.state.tx.us> wrote:
>> No. Running on my Dell laptop.
>>
>>
>> Sent on the new Sprint Network from my Samsung Galaxy S®4.
>>
>>
>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: Jakob Bohm
>> Date:07/03/2014 1:23 PM (GMT-06:00)
>> To: openssl-users@openssl.org
>> Subject: Re: help with error
>>
>> On 7/3/2014 5:50 PM, Steven Kinney wrote:
>>> I enter the following command, as instructed by Cisco:
>>>
>>> req -new -config c:\openssl\share\openssl.cnf -newkey rsa:1024 -nodes
>>> -keyout mykey.pem -out myreq.pem
>>>
>>> And I get the following error:
>>>
>>> Please enter the following 'extra' attributes
>>>
>>> to be sent with your certificate request
>>>
>>> A challenge password []:tester
>>>
>>> Error adding attribute
>>>
>>> 7684:error:0D0BA041:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_STRING_set:malloc
>>> failure:./cryp
>>>
>>> to/asn1/asn1_lib.c:381:
>>>
>>> 7684:error:0B08A041:x509 certificate
>>> routines:X509_ATTRIBUTE_set1_data:malloc fa
>>>
>>> ilure:./crypto/x509/x509_att.c:317:
>>>
>>> problems making Certificate Request
>>>
>>> error in req
>>>
>>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>>
>> I think the important part is "malloc failure", in which case you
>> simply don't have enough free ram to run the command.
>>
>> Are you by any chance running the command on a heavily loaded
>> router?
>>
>>
>> Enjoy
>>
>> Jakob
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