RE: extend validity of existing certificates

2003-02-17 Thread Markus Lorch
On my little system I've three types of self created certificates that will all expire this year (I didnt pay much attention to expiration when first creating them). I'm now looking for a way how to extend this validity without recreating the certificates and therefore breaking existing

Re: extend validity of existing certificates

2003-02-17 Thread Hotmail
It is not true, because it is possible to extend the validity of a certificate, even with openssl. You have to create a new certification request, with an extended period of time. Rossi - Original Message - From: Markus Lorch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

RE: extend validity of existing certificates

2003-02-17 Thread Markus Lorch
It is not true, because it is possible to extend the validity of a certificate, even with openssl. I'd be really curious how you accomplish this, other than the solution below ... which creates a new cert request which becomes a new cert after the cert request has been signed I.e. a PKC is

Re: extend validity of existing certificates

2003-02-17 Thread pilsl
Thnx a lot for your detailed answer. I already started following your recommandations and created a new CA.crt based on the given old ca.key and also created a new CSR (also based on its old key) and signed it with the new CA to get a new CRT. The new CRT is perfectly accepted by all clients

Re: r.e. OpenSSL and MacOS (pre-OS X)

2003-02-17 Thread Aram Perez
Hi Rodney, Rodney Thayer wrote: I'm trying to build OpenSSL 0.9.7 on OS X 10.2.3 with CodeWarrior. I tried using the 'mcp' files in the MacOS directory, but they don't work. Specifically, they can't find /usr/include/sys/types.h. Short of being grumpy the compiler's too clueless to find

Re: r.e. OpenSSL and MacOS (pre-OS X)

2003-02-17 Thread Rodney Thayer
At 07:15 AM 2/17/2003 -0800, Aram wrote: I've built it with GNU on OS X. The only problem I ran into was the problem stated in the file PROBLEMS, where OS X already has an older version of the OpenSSL libraries. I've done that too. There is, by the way, a serious problem with that

redirecting input to s_client

2003-02-17 Thread Himanshu Soni
Hi Is there a way to redirect the GET/POST request from a file to the openssl s_client app? something like: cat get.txt | openssl s_client -connect server:443 -cert crtfile -key keyfile The result of the above is that the program exists with DONE printed to the console. I have tried the

Re: r.e. OpenSSL and MacOS (pre-OS X)

2003-02-17 Thread Aram Perez
Hi Rodney, Yes, that happened to me. I didn't delete the files, just moved them to another directory, but then I couldn't boot. I had to boot into single user mode, copy the files back and then I was able to reboot fine. Regards, Aram Rodney Thayer wrote: At 07:15 AM 2/17/2003 -0800, Aram

Re: OpenSSL 0.9.6/0.9.7 library version conflicts

2003-02-17 Thread Vivek Khera
TL == Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TL not being overridden, even when the library path is. This is TL most likely due to a bug in the GNU configure script. The best TL way around those bugs is do not use GNU configure. FYI, FreeBSD is not the only OS on which this problem has been

Re: OpenSSL 0.9.6/0.9.7 library version conflicts

2003-02-17 Thread Terry Lambert
Vivek Khera wrote: TL == Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TL not being overridden, even when the library path is. This is TL most likely due to a bug in the GNU configure script. The best TL way around those bugs is do not use GNU configure. FYI, FreeBSD is not the only OS on

Making Private CA

2003-02-17 Thread Chandrasekhar R S
Hello, I am making my own private CA, using the CA.pl scripts provided under the apps directory of OpenSSL release. I run ./CA.pl -newca It asks for filename, and I enter without giving any. I am prompted for PEM pass phase. I enter some. After which, I