Re: certificate withou private key

2007-10-04 Thread Mathias Tausig
The rpoblem is, that the handling of the samrt card is a bit complicated in the state it is now, and I'm simply not sure, wether I am able to make the certificate without using the private key at all (that is without signing, too). cheers Mathias Am 01. Oct 2007, schrieb Mike Nelson: Yes.

Re: certificate withou private key

2007-10-01 Thread Mathias Tausig
It does indeed. But now that my doubts are gone, I'm still missing the neccesary abilities :-) I've looked through the manpages of openssl and everything I found concerning the creation of certificates involved a private key. Do you know how I can actually do it? cheers Mathias Am 30. Sep

RE: certificate withou private key

2007-10-01 Thread David Schwartz
Hy! Is it possible to create a certificate with openssl without using the coresponding private key (which is stored in a smartcard) but with the public key only? Your question really doesn't make any sense. Why would the key being in a smartcard keep you from using it? The whole point

Re: certificate withou private key

2007-10-01 Thread Steffen DETTMER
* David Schwartz wrote on Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 02:51 -0700: Before a CA signs a certificate, it needs to know that that the identity it is certifying owns the private key that corresponds to the public key in the certificate. This almost always requires that private key to be used in some way.

cert request with encription-only key? was: certificate withou private key

2007-10-01 Thread Magosányi Árpád
. In the case of smart cards and embedded devices, the keypair and CSR are generated and the private key is never exposed. Google the terms 'PKCS#10' 'SPKAC' and 'CSR' - Michael -Original Message- From: Mathias Tausig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subj: certificate withou private key Date: Sun 2007

certificate withou private key

2007-09-30 Thread Mathias Tausig
Hy! Is it possible to create a certificate with openssl without using the coresponding private key (which is stored in a smartcard) but with the public key only? Mathias __ OpenSSL Project

Re: certificate withou private key

2007-09-30 Thread Marek Marcola
Hello, Is it possible to create a certificate with openssl without using the coresponding private key (which is stored in a smartcard) but with the public key only? To create certificate with OpenSSL you need Certificate Request. This request should be generated with your smartcard software

Re: certificate withou private key

2007-09-30 Thread Michael Sierchio
. Google the terms 'PKCS#10' 'SPKAC' and 'CSR' - Michael -Original Message- From: Mathias Tausig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subj: certificate withou private key Date: Sun 2007 Sep 30 14:33 Size: 459 bytes To: openssl-users@openssl.org Hy! Is it possible to create a certificate with openssl without

Re: certificate withou private key

2007-09-30 Thread Bernhard Fröhlich
Mathias Tausig schrieb: Hy! Is it possible to create a certificate with openssl without using the coresponding private key (which is stored in a smartcard) but with the public key only? Mathias It depends on which private key you are talking about... A certificate as such is a piece of

Re: certificate withou private key

2007-09-30 Thread Massimiliano Pala
Hi, you do not need the private key corresponding to the public key in the certificate in order to generate it. You need only the public key, and the private key from the issuing entity (the CA) to generate the certificate signature. If you are issuing a self-signed certificate, then you'll