Re: Signing a CSR from JetDirect: Problem solved !

2003-07-25 Thread Dean Gibson (System Administrator)
I got it to work; the command below just needs: " -extfile ../openssl.cnf -extensions usr_cert" I had ASSUMED that since "openssl req" and "openssl ca" can find the "openssl.cnf" file, that "openssl x509" could also. -- Dean Dean Gibson (System Administrator) wrote on 2003-07-25 11:49: Thanks

RE: Signing a CSR from JetDirect

2003-07-25 Thread Dean Gibson (System Administrator)
t; Sent: 14 July 2003 18:35 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Signing a CSR from JetDirect > > > > > It seems to me that it is in the best interest of the major > > CAs to not offer wildcard certificates; that way, they can > > charge their outrageous prices fo

RE: Signing a CSR from JetDirect

2003-07-25 Thread John . Airey
> -Original Message- > From: Bob DeBolt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 14 July 2003 18:35 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Signing a CSR from JetDirect > > > > > It seems to me that it is in the best interest of the major > > CAs to not of

Re: Signing a CSR from JetDirect

2003-07-17 Thread Michael Sierchio
David Schwartz wrote: The right thing is for the CA to issue a limited wildcard CA cert. Basically, it would say that a certain key may sign certificates for all hosts inside a particular domain. That way you only need one key signed by an outside authority and it doesn't matter if one of

RE: Signing a CSR from JetDirect

2003-07-16 Thread David Schwartz
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 11:35:01AM -0600, Bob DeBolt wrote: > > > It seems to me that it is in the best interest of the major > > > CAs to not offer wildcard certificates; that way, they can > > > charge their outrageous prices for each certificate that you > > > need, and when you happen to c

Re: Signing a CSR from JetDirect

2003-07-16 Thread Jason Haar
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 11:35:01AM -0600, Bob DeBolt wrote: > > > It seems to me that it is in the best interest of the major > > CAs to not offer wildcard certificates; that way, they can > > charge their outrageous prices for each certificate that you > > need, and when you happen to change

RE: Signing a CSR from JetDirect

2003-07-14 Thread Bob DeBolt
> It seems to me that it is in the best interest of the major > CAs to not offer wildcard certificates; that way, they can > charge their outrageous prices for each certificate that you > need, and when you happen to change a hostname, they are > right there at the trough looking for more mo

Re: Signing a CSR from JetDirect

2003-07-14 Thread Dean Gibson (System Administrator)
I used to generate a self-signed certificate for each hostname I was using for an SSL connection (www.ultimeth.net, imaps.ultimeth.net, smtp.ultimeth.net, etc. ...). Then a couple weeks ago in browsing the Internet, I happened across this site: http://www.freessl.com. I noticed that they sell

Re: Signing a CSR from JetDirect

2003-07-14 Thread Charles B Cranston
I'm not sure that this is AT ALL relevant but I noticed that the issuer CN has a wildcard and I wonder 1) what this means, and 2) if this could be confusing something? Dean Gibson (System Administrator) wrote: openssl x509 -req -in hplj4600dn1.csr -CA ultimeth.pem -days 3650 -set_serial 01 -out h

Re: Signing a CSR from JetDirect

2003-07-14 Thread Dean Gibson (System Administrator)
I put that in my openssl.cnf in the [ usr_cert ] section, and did: openssl x509 -req -in hplj4600dn1.csr -CA ultimeth.pem -days 3650 -set_serial 01 -out hplj4600dn1.crt It didn't help; here's what "openssl x509 -in hplj4600dn1.crt -text -purpose" shows: Certificate: Data: Version:

Re: Signing a CSR from JetDirect

2003-07-13 Thread Umesh
Hi, The certificate on JetDirect can be used for both client and server authentication. JetDirect expects the installed certificate to contain extendedKeyUsage extension with the values serverAuth and clientAuth. Add the following line "extendedKeyUsage = clientAuth, serverAuth" in the section [us

Re: Signing a CSR from JetDirect

2003-07-12 Thread Dean Gibson (System Administrator)
The screen where I'm supposed to paste the certificate file says: "Please insert the certificate into the text box provided. The certificate needs to be in PEM/Base64 encoding and less than 3kB in size, or the certificate will be rejected." -- Dean Michael Sierchio wrote on 2003-07-12 10:09: >