Josdeyvi Russi wrote:
>
> I was able to register the CA Demo at the PGPnet, as a PEM file:
>
> 1 - Using the Certificate Manager Export Wizard at the Explorer, I saved the
> sendcert.crt as a Base64 X.509 Certificate.
> 2 - It was necessar to rename the file sendcrt.cer to sendcrt.pem
> 3 - Bingo: the PGP was able to import the certicate.
>
> Question and suggestion: What is the format to the sendsert.crt? Why not as
> a PEM since the beginning?
The certificate sent to the user (user/email type) is in PEM format --
for the CA certificate (sendcert is the little program that sends the
cert) it is in DER format because browsers usually require it to be
sent in this form (PEM is only Base64 encoded DER... ).
--
C'you,
Massimiliano Pala
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