It seems that I stepped into a nomenclature land mine ;) When I open the pkcs12 container with openssl, it asks me for the import password (that I have) and then for the PEM passphrase.
I talked to the guy that generated the container and certificate and his question was PEM passphrase? I didn't used that?! I just created it with the password. So what I can see from the certificate are some of it's details and the PEM encoded certficate. ... Vadim, thanks for taking the time. I really appreciate it! Cheers On Dec 3, 12:32 pm, Vadym Fedyukovych <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 02:44:09AM -0800, adfm wrote: > > First of all, > > > Thanks for the replies, I know that answering some lame question can > > seem like a waste of time but I really appreciate it. As you all > > might have guessed I'm completely new to cryptography > > > Now answering Vadim, > > > What I did was grab the pfx certificate I was given, opened it, copied > > the PEM encodig to a file and saved it. > > private key required to decrypt or sign; public key is used to encrypt or > verify a signature. > > no private key there in X.509 certificate, just a public one. > > PKCS-12 structure is a "container" that can hold the private key, as well a > X.509 certificate > > > when I do a "openssl x509 -text -in myfile" it outputs everything it > > should output, so there I know it's a "valid" (valid as in I can see > > what is inside and it makes sense). > > would it show private key with "openssl pkcs12 ... pfx" ? > > > Well, all seems to be in order then, so... do I need to do some > > intermediate step after loading the file and before trying to load the > > private key? > > > To Mark and Tin, thanks for your input I really appreciate it! > > > Cheers to all > > Andr? > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Crypto++ > > Users" Google Group. > > To unsubscribe, send an email to > > [email protected]. > > More information about Crypto++ and this group is available > > athttp://www.cryptopp.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Crypto++ Users" Google Group. To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected]. More information about Crypto++ and this group is available at http://www.cryptopp.com.
