Root certificate Revocation bug (serial number)

2001-03-08 Thread Evan Cross
Hi Guys, Heres one for you. When you create the root certificate with openssl it is given a serial number of 0. Every other root signed certificate (peer certs) is given a serial number of 0X where X is the next certificate number e.g. 01. The certificates signed by root can be revoked and

revoking a root certificate.

2001-03-08 Thread Evan Cross
Is it possible to revoke a root certificate? I am having problems with this as my database (index.txt complains about the serial number being invalid. Cheers Evan Get your own zoom email - click here - http://www.zoom.co.uk/

CRL generation help

2001-02-15 Thread Evan Cross
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2001-02-15 Thread Evan Cross
Hi, I need to load a certificate from disk so I can check to see if it validity before time is in the future. I've been trying to use PEM_read_X509 but it crashes. Anyone got any examples that show how to successfully load a certificate from disk and view its contents. I can't find anything

help with certs!!

2001-02-11 Thread Evan Cross
Hi, These are the steps I am using to create a CA and then sign a certificate. openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout cakey.pem -out cacert.pem -config openssl.cnf then i follow the prompts. after cacert.pem is created a copy the private key into democa/private and cacert.pem into democa

CRL text view output help (more CRL help!!)

2001-02-08 Thread Evan Cross
Hello again, Heres what im doing to revoke a cert and create a CRL:- Openssl ca -revoke server.pem -config ca.cfg : to revoke the certificate Openssl ca -gencrl -config ca.cfg -out ca/crl/crl.pem - crldays 1 : to create the CRL Now This is the output I get when I run the command , openssl cr

How do you view the contents of a CRL?

2001-02-08 Thread Evan Cross
How do I view the contents of a CRL? I need to be able to see what certificates have been revoked. Evan Get your own zoom email - click here - http://www.zoom.co.uk/ __ OpenSSL Project http://www

SSL_CTX_set_verify_locations CAPATH help

2001-02-05 Thread Evan Cross
Hi, I'm was wondering if anyone could help with this. I want to keep a store of CA certificates in one directory and I was under the impression that the CAPATH variable allows for this. However the certificates in the directory are never loaded. Theres a mention of using a hash tool but im

creating a CA and signing a server cert steps (please verify).

2001-02-02 Thread Evan Cross
Hi, These are the steps I am using to create a CA and then sign a certificate. openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout cakey.pem -out cacert.pem -config openssl.cnf then i follow the prompts. after cacert.pem is created a copy the private key into democa/private and cacert.pem into democa

More help on server certificate verification

2001-02-01 Thread Evan Cross
Hi again, I have finally managed to get the trusted certificate to load into the application but now I am getting errors about the certificate chain being to long. The server only sends its certificate and the client loads the Root CA cert to verify the server certificate. As I stated before

Certificate verification help

2001-01-31 Thread Evan Cross
Hi, I am having trouble with verifying the server certificate that is sent during the SSL handshake. I looke through verify.c to get an Idea but the lack of comments and docs on the X509_* stuff aint helping. So far I have loaded the root CA certificate using X509_LOOKUP_load_file. then I t