Oh, I should mention that I
[ssl] # apachectl startssl
will start apache wil ssl support (other than the error about virtual
hosts)
but how can I trust that with the error messages I got, which seem to
relate to the encryption routine ???


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> 
> Hi. Sorry about being off-topic.
> I had some, for me, un-decipherable error messages when trying to sign
> my own certificate.
> First I created  my private key and certificate signing request :
> [ssl]# openssl genrsa -des3 -out sever.key 1024
> [ssl]# openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr
> Then I created my own certificate authority:
> [ssl]# openssl genrsa -des3 -out ca.key 1024
> Next, I created a self-signed CA certificate with my rsa key:
> [ssl]# openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -key ca.key -out ca.crt
> Finally, I attempted to sign the ca.crt
> [ssl]# ./sign.sh private/server.csr
> 
> Here is the tail-end of the output :
> ...
> Certificate is to be certified until Jul 29 16:00:25 2004 GMT (365 days)
> Sign the certificate? [y/n]:y
> 
> 1 out of 1 certificate requests certified, commit? [y/n]y
> Write out database with 1 new entries
> Data Base Updated
> CA verifying: private/server.crt <-> CA cert
> private/server.crt: /C=HK/ST=HK/O=SAYS I.T. Co.
> Ltd./CN=www.saysit.com.hk/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> error 18 at 0 depth lookup:self signed certificate
> /C=HK/ST=HK/O=SAYS I.T. Co.
> Ltd./CN=www.saysit.com.hk/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> error 7 at 0 depth lookup:certificate signature failure
> 2117:error:0407006A:rsa routines:RSA_padding_check_PKCS1_type_1:block
> type is not 01:rsa_pk1.c:100:
> 2117:error:04067072:rsa routines:RSA_EAY_PUBLIC_DECRYPT:padding check
> failed:rsa_eay.c:396:
> 2117:error:0D079006:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_verify:bad get asn1
> object call:a_verify.c:109:
> [ssl]#
> 
> OpenSSL went and created the certificates "server.crt as in httpd.conf's
> "SSLCertificateFile /path/to/this/server.crt"
> I hesitate to use it because of these error messages.
> Can someone see where I might have gone wrong and how to rectify that
> ???
> TIA :(
> 
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