On Thu, Nov 26, 1998, Michael Hallgren wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 08:16:14AM +0100, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 26, 1998, Nuno Grilo wrote:
> >
> > > I have a machine running WindowsNT+IIS with a certificate issued by
> > > verisign and which I will soon change to Unix+apache+mod_ssl.
> > > I would like to know if it is possible to transfer the private
> > > key/certificate from IIS to apache or will I have to ask verisign to
> > > issue a new certificate?
> >
> > The certificate is a X.509 certificate, so you can use it with Apache, too.
> > But it can be encoded in a different envelop format. I guess IIS uses plain
> > DER while for Apache+mod_ssl+SSLeay you need it in PEM format. What you
> > usually need is to convert it.
> >
> > For instance you can use the following SSLeay commands to convert your
> > iis-server.crt/iis-server.key files (assuming they are named this way and are
> > in DER format) to the server.crt/server.key files for mod_ssl:
> >
> > $ ssleay x509 -inform DER -in iis-server.crt -outform PEM -out server.crt
> > $ ssleay rsa -inform DER -in iis-server.key -outform PEM -out server.key
>
> Hmm,... I tried to go the other way around. Built a pair on a BSD box, sent
> a request to Thawte, then tried to use the pair on a Windows box. It did not
> work. So I called Thawte, learning that BSD -> Win export of priv key doesn't
> work ???
Really? That's interesting. The format of the cert/key data is actually coded
in ASN.1, so should be totally portable between BSD and Windows. Hmmmm...
never tried this way myself.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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