Re: Need Help with Creating Netscape Object Signing Certificate

2000-10-22 Thread Mario Fabiano
Dg B wrote: > > Hello! > > I have been fiddling with OpenSSL now for over a week, and cannot make > sense of this thing. :( > I desperately need to create an Object signing certificate for my work at > hand. However, all of my attempts are not working. > > Is there a step-by-step instructi

Re: Browser's signature function

2000-09-28 Thread Mario Fabiano
> ¾G¹ÅÂ× wrote: > > Hi, > > As we know, SSL protocol do not support signature function. > But Netscape does it by signtext javascript function call. > How about IE? Does IE support signature function? > If IE does not, is it possible that writing a Microsoft Crypto API > ActiveX which > access t

apache-mod_ssl problems

1999-12-01 Thread Mario Fabiano
With the last version 2.3.9-1.3.9 compiled on a RedHat 6.1 box I have the following behaviour with SSL and running the following script: #!/bin/sh echo "Content-type: text/plain" echo set -- BASH=/bin/sh BASH_VERSIO

Some book about certificates

1999-11-25 Thread Mario Fabiano
There are a lot of documents and standards concerning certificates: X.509 and other X.5xx ITU specifications; IETF PKIX and SMIME drafts and RFCs; RSA PKCS specification; Some others. I find very hard to get a clear vision of the whole matter. Please, can someone suggest a good book? --

DSA CA

1999-06-22 Thread Mario Fabiano
I am trying to issue objectsign cetificates for JDK 1.2 keytool. I can get a user certificate signing the CSR produced with keytool, but unfortunately keytool refuses to import my CA root certificate. The problem seems related to the lack, inside keytool, of a provider (a set of Java classes) that

Re: Certificate format conversion

1999-06-08 Thread Mario Fabiano
> If you asked about how to do it in C code then look at the > relevant lines in apps/x509.c ;-) > > Mario Fabiano schrieb: > > > > How can I convert a certificate obtained with openssl CA from PEM to > > PKCS#10 format? > > Thank you in advance for any help. >

Object signing

1999-05-25 Thread Mario Fabiano
I want to issue a X509v3 certificate with openssl CA to sign Java applets. What extensions must I define in the ssleay.cnf file? Thank you in advance. -- Mario __ OpenSSL Project

Re: CRLs with Netscape Communicator (it works!)

1999-05-11 Thread Mario Fabiano
Dr Stephen Henson wrote: > > OpenSSL can still produce V1 CRLs. Even if you delete the whole crl_ext > section it will still generate a V2 CRL. What you need to do is comment > out the line: > crl_extensions = crl_ext > e.g. put a # at the start. When it sees that no crl extension section is > na

Re: CRLs with Netscape Communicator

1999-05-01 Thread Mario Fabiano
Dr Stephen Henson wrote: > > Mario Fabiano wrote: > > > > Then I convert the CRL into other formats, like pkcs7 or DER, e.g.: > > openssl crl -inform PEM -in $CurrCrl -outform DER -out $dwnlcrl > ... > Forget the other formats in my experien

CRLs with Netscape Communicator

1999-04-27 Thread Mario Fabiano
I run a my own demo CA based on openssl 0.9.2b and other stuff (apache-mod_ssl and php3). I am trying to load a CRL into a Netscape Communicator 4.06 or higher. I get the CRL with the command: openssl ca -gencrl -config $CrlConfig -out $CurrCrl -key $Password Then I convert the CRL into o

Re: Multiple OU in personal certificate

1999-04-17 Thread Mario Fabiano
Kaur Virunurm wrote: > > You can repeat any attribute in DN as many times as you wish. > The way to do it is to add multiple entries for this attribute > into the [req] session of your config file. Example: > > 0.stateOrProvinceName = State or Province Name 1 (full name) > 0.stateOrPro

Multiple OU in personal certificate

1999-04-15 Thread Mario Fabiano
I got a free demo certificate from Verisign. The subject distinguished name shows three OU, i.e.: Subject: O=VeriSign, Inc., OU=VeriSign Trust Network, OU=www.verisign.com/repository/RPA Incorp. by Ref.,LIAB.LTD(c)98, OU=Persona Not Validated, OU=Digital ID Class 1 - Netscape, CN=Mario [EMAIL PR

Re: Problem with openssl

1999-04-04 Thread Mario Fabiano
Steffen Dettmer wrote: > > I am using OpenSSL 0.9.2b 22 Mar 1999 on a RedHat 5.2 Linux box. > > > Error Loading extension section x509v3_extensions > > 2191:error:2206506F:X509 V3 routines:V2I_ASN1_BIT_STRING:unknown bit > > string argument:v3_bitst.c:146:section:,name:0xA0,value: > > the synta

A question on crls

1999-03-27 Thread Mario Fabiano
I have created a crl using the openssl command: ca -gencrl -config somepath/mypolicy.cnf -out anotherpath/mycrl.crl I have also tried to convert mycrl.crl to some other formats (DER, TXT); Whatever the format I use, Netscape Communicator refuses to load the crl and says: "The certificate revoca

Certificate in PEM format

1999-03-27 Thread Mario Fabiano
I run a my own CA based on OpenSSL, got with the CA.sh script. The certificates that I find in the repository (that is the directory newcerts) have the X509 extensions correcty readable, i.e.: X509v3 extensions: Netscape Base Url: https://aurora.space.worlds/ca/ Netscape CA Revocati