Re: Question on Converting a private key file.

2004-06-24 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004, McCune, Michael wrote: > Hi Andy, > > My prior post might help you (below). I basically decrypted the > original key (using "openssl pkcs8") I had generated with OpenSSL (a RSA > key), and at the same time, it was converted to a PKCS8 format. > > I stripped off the header

RE: Question on Converting a private key file.

2004-06-24 Thread McCune, Michael
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Re: Question on Converting a private key file.

2004-06-24 Thread Charles B Cranston
Well, x509 specifies the representations of crypto objects (like certificates and keys) as sequences of binary bytes [1]. DER [2] is just those binary bytes in a file, while PEM [3] is a way to encode x509 as a sequence of printable characters. So it is entirely possible for a file to be both PEM a

Question on Converting a private key file.

2004-06-24 Thread Andrew B. Michaelis
Greetings all, I am new to this list. I am also new to understanding a lot of SSL encryction. What I am attemting to/need to do is to take an existing private key created with the openSSL tool and the certificate reponse from verisign and be able to use it with tomcat. We have just installed /