Re: Private Key problem

2007-05-03 Thread alois74
Steve, THANK YOU!!! :-D openssl pkcs8 -inform DER -nocrypt -in file.der on the binary i got from xxd did the trick! Yaiii! You made my day! What a relieve. I can now load the privatekey just fine. i can finally move on, to the next problem that will probably arise soon:) thanks again, alois --

Re: RE: Private Key problem

2007-05-03 Thread alois74
thanks for your answer. xxd -r -p does work, and leaves me with a binary file. i tried converting that to PEM, which leaves me with something indeed quite looking like a private key, when comparing to one i created with openssl, but still no luck. some weird chars in there:S now if only i knew wh

Re: Private Key problem

2007-05-03 Thread alois74
Thanks! I currently dont have access to the key generator, so cant post an example. However, the key actually DOES start with 30. The first chars are: 30820 the last ones are: F750 then theres a newline at the end. i tried removing that, ..same. anyway, im pretty confused. No idea what else i coul

Private Key problem

2007-05-02 Thread alois74
(openssl-dev readers ignore, crosspost...) Hey all, Im tearing my hair out here with what is probably a stupid problem. I'm new to openssl , rsa, etc... , so bear with me please:) Im doing the server-side things of an authorization system. So, i need to sign user-submited challenge files with a