On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 10:20:42PM +0400, Arsen Hayrapetyan wrote:
> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 22:20:42 +0400
> From: Arsen Hayrapetyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Openca-Users] The serial number of CA root certificate
> 
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> >>   :) what OS or linux dist are you using? I've seen this behavior only
> >> in Debian and reason for this is a too long serial of the CA certificate.
> >>     
> I am using Scientific Linux CERN (SLC) 4, it is compatible with Red Hat 
> Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4. The version
> of OpenSSL I have is 0.9.7e.
> >> You have two options: fix genCert subroutine in OpenSSL.pm so that
> >> "-set_serial" openssl option is used for the CA certificate generation.
> >>     
> I added the following line to genCert subroutine:
> $command.="-set_serial 0x0";

  Don't forget the tailing space: $command.="-set_serial 0x0 ", for CA
cert usually number 1 for serial is used.

> and issued a new certificate. It didn't help:  OpenCA  used the value 
> from $OPENCA_DIR/var/crypto/serial (it was 01).

  What serial number CA cert has? genCert is used for CA cert generation
only. For other certs serial from $OPENCA_DIR/var/crypto/serial is used.
My guess is, that CA cert's serial is causing problem, so you have to
reinitialise OpenCA or to apply "bigint" patches.

> >>  Or you can use experimental patches named 30_bigint_serial_* from the cvs
> >>
> >>  in the debian/patches directory.
> I am afraid, they don't suit my operating system: I don't use Debian.
> 
 Those pathches aren't debian specific. You don't need'em unless you are
planning to use serials that won't fit into 32bit integer.

 Regards,

-- 
Alexei Chetroi

Smile... Tomorrow will be worse. (c) Murphy's Law

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