Hello, I sent this to openssl-users earlier this week but I still don't have a solution to the problem that I'm trying to solve. I'm now getting fairly desperate for a solution to this problem. If anybody can help me with this, please do. Thanks, Charles Walker > Hello there, > > I am attempting to convert a key backup generated by Microsoft Key > Manager to PEM format, according to some hints that I have seen in the > archive of this mailing list, and am not having a great deal of success. > > I have a little C program that searches for the string "private-key" in > the file, then searches backwards for the first 0x30 0x82 before the > "private-key" string, then writes from that 0x30 0x82 (inclusive) into > another file - effectively removing the data before 0x30 0x82 and not > modifying or removing anything after it. > > Then I attempt to run the following command on the output: > > openssl rsa -inform NET -in file.out -out file.pem > > where file.out is the file generated by my aforementioned little C > program. openssl prompts for the password. I enter the same one (in > the same case) that I used in IIS. openssl (which is 0.94 which I have > built with debug) then gives the following error: > > unable to load Private Key > 775: Error:asn1 encoding routines:d2i_Netscape_RSA:asn1 length > mismatch:n_pkey.c:216:address=1192744 offset 17 > > I thought maybe I had a problem with the password, but I have now tried > this with two different keys (and making the password as simple as > possible on the second one) but i still have the problem. Any clues? > > Thanks, > Charles Walker -- ======================================= Charles Walker, Networking Consultant, Hypertrak mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.hypertrak.com ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
