Re: openssl ca -revoke why need CA parm

2013-10-29 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On 28 Oct 2013, at 11:56, redpath wrote: > I would like to know why the openssl CA command to revoke a cert > (myfiletorevoke) > needs the CA cert other than the cert I want to revoke. > > openssl ca -revoke myfiletorevoke -keyfile cakey -cert cacert -passin > pass:CApass -config myconfig

Re: openssl ca -revoke why need CA parm

2013-10-28 Thread Stefan H. Holek
On 28.10.2013, at 11:56, redpath wrote: > I would like to know why the openssl CA command to revoke a cert > (myfiletorevoke) > needs the CA cert other than the cert I want to revoke. This is to prove the authority of the operator. > openssl ca -revoke myfiletorevoke -keyfile cakey -cert ca

Re: openssl ca -revoke

2013-07-30 Thread Jakob Bohm
On 20-07-2013 13:39, redpath wrote: Very nice tutorial http://pki-tutorial.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ So the issue is that there is no real Certificate Management Trust system available handling concurrency issues for a Database that works seamless with revocation commands and OCSP responder.

Re: openssl ca -revoke

2013-07-20 Thread redpath
Very nice tutorial http://pki-tutorial.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ So the issue is that there is no real Certificate Management Trust system available handling concurrency issues for a Database that works seamless with revocation commands and OCSP responder. For example, using an OCSP responder

Re: openssl ca -revoke

2013-07-20 Thread Stefan H. Holek
On 19.07.2013, at 22:33, redpath wrote: > The command > > openssl ca -revoke ./demoCA/newcerts/1008.pem -config myconfig.cnf -passin > pass:password > > seems to just update a database, the 1008.pem is not touched. > Can someone tell me what this command really does for revocation. Correct. You