Re: Problem generating a certificate.

2006-07-17 Thread Dave Pawson
On 17/07/06, Dr. Stephen Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'd suggest using the CA.pl script instead for this, it makes things > >considerably easier. CA.pl just does the right thing without the user having to worry about it. Later if you want to understand how everything works or for m

Re: Problem generating a certificate.

2006-07-17 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006, Dave Pawson wrote: > On 17/07/06, Dr. Stephen Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I'm unsure which file it's telling me is wrong, the request or the config > >> file? > >> > > > >Neither it is saying the CA index.txt file is in an invalid format. > > > >I'd suggest usin

Re: Problem generating a certificate.

2006-07-17 Thread Dave Pawson
On 17/07/06, Dr. Stephen Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm unsure which file it's telling me is wrong, the request or the config > file? > Neither it is saying the CA index.txt file is in an invalid format. I'd suggest using the CA.pl script instead for this, it makes things considerably

Re: Problem generating a certificate.

2006-07-17 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006, Dave Pawson wrote: > wrong number of fields on line 1 (looking for field 6, got 1, '' left) > > I'm unsure which file it's telling me is wrong, the request or the config > file? > Neither it is saying the CA index.txt file is in an invalid format. I'd suggest using the C

Problem generating a certificate.

2006-07-17 Thread Dave Pawson
Following the example in the openssl book, I generated a cert request $C:\ca>openssl req -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout blkey.pem -keyform PEM -out blreq.pem -outform PEM Then tried to generate the certificate (with openssl.cnf set to the CA configuration). C:\ca>openssl ca -in blreq.pem Using confi