problem signing spkacs

2001-10-17 Thread Christopher L. Everett
Hello: I'm trying to use the openssl ca command inside a mod_perl handler (I borrowed Perl code from http://www.pseudonym.org/ssl/) to sign netscape spkacs, and I'm running into a very funky problem. The docs say that the signed cert wil come out in PEM form. As I understand it, PEM

Signing Browser Client Certificates

2001-09-26 Thread Christopher L. Everett
Hello again: I read the OSPKI book, which pointed me at the sign.sh script which helped quite a bit. I'm wondering if anyone can help me with a few specifics. So far, how I understand a certificate request gets signed is: 1) put the CSR into a file. 2) generate a configuration file that

REPOST: confused about signing cert requests from clients

2001-09-25 Thread Christopher L. Everett
Hello, I posted the message below last Friday, and I haven't seen any response, not even a curt directive to RTFM (which I have). Perhaps I'm not asking in the right way, or perhaps I'm not asking the right people. If any of you could explicitly tell me how to sign a certificate request