Hi 

What kind of information do i need to put in the fields of First and Last 
name and Common name. Will any information do or is it required that I 
need to put in the server address in the client.p12 certificate..

Regards & Thanks
================
Mahesh S Kudva


-----Original Message-----
From: "Mahesh S Kudva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Tomcat Users List" <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 23:04:50 +0530
Subject: Re: Client Authentication

> Hi 
> 
> I tried with client.p12 first, when i failed I went on with 
> client_cert.x509. I placed it in the personal folder ...
> 
> Regards & Thanks
> ================
> Mahesh S Kudva
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "lercoli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Tomcat Users List" <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org>
> Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 17:31:54 +0200
> Subject: Re: Client Authentication
> 
> > You should import only client.p12 certificate in IE browser and
> > when IE asks you in which folder you want to put it select Personal
> > Folder.
> > 
> > I hope it helps you.
> > 
> > Luca Ercoli
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Mahesh S Kudva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org>
> > Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 5:08 PM
> > Subject: Client Authentication
> > 
> > 
> > > Dear All
> > >
> > > I've been able to setup Tomcat 5.0.30 successfully on port 8443. I
> > want to
> > > use client authentication. Hence i've enabled clientAuth=true in
> > > server.xml
> > >
> > > Running on Mac OS X these were the commands to create a CA and sign
> a
> > > certificate using this CA.
> > >
> > > Creating a new CA:
> > > 1) perl CA.pl -newca
> > >
> > > Certificate request using openssl:
> > > 1) perl CA.pl -newreq
> > > 2) perl CA.pl -sign
> > > 3) mv newreq.pem client_req.pem
> > > 4) mv newcert.pem client_cert.pem
> > > 5) openssl rsa < client_req.pem > client_key.pem
> > > 6) openssl pkcs12 -export -in client_cert.pem -inkey client_key.pem
> > -out
> > >    client.p12
> > >
> > > For Tomcat using Java keytool to request certificate:
> > > 1) openssl x509 -in server_cert.pem -out server.x509
> > > 2) openssl pkcs12 -export -in server_cert.pem -inkey server_key.pem
> > >    -out server.p12
> > > 3) keytool -genkey -alias meAsClient -storepass changeit
> > > 4) keytool -certreq -alias measclient -file client.csr -storepass
> > changeit
> > > 5) openssl x509   -req -CA demoCA/cacert.pem -CAkey
> > >    demoCA/private/cakey.pem -extensions v3_ca -in client.csr
> -inform
> > DER
> > >    -out client_cert.x509 -CAcreateserial
> > > 6) keytool -import -alias butterflyCA -keystore /Syst..
> > ..urity/cacerts
> > >    -file ../CA/demoCA/cacert.pem
> > > 7) keytool -import -alias measclient -keystore clientstore
> > -trustcacerts
> > >    -file client_cert.x509
> > >
> > >
> > > Following these commands I dont get any errors. I then import the
> > > cacert.pem, the ROOT CA certificate and the client.p12 and
> > > client_cert.x509 to the browser I.E 6.0. But still there is a popup
> > > requesting for the clients identity and it asks me to select a
> > > certificate and no certificates are displayed.
> > >
> > > How can I go about this?
> > >
> > >
> > > All suggestion and ideas are welcome.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards & Thanks
> > > ================
> > > Mahesh S Kudva
> > >
> > >
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