The bug does appear on OSX 10.5.6 (openssl-SNAP-20090207) with the
following command line: ./config threads shared no-sse2
enable-whrlpool enable-montasm enable-capieng enable-cms enable-seed
enable-tlsext  enable-camellia enable-rfc3779 enable-mdc2 enable-rc5
--prefix=/$HOME/ossl --openssldir=$HOME/ossl

[...]
Generate and verify a certificate request
generating certificate request
rsa
There should be a 2 sequences of .'s and some +'s.
There should not be more that at most 80 per line
This could take some time.
Generating a 512 bit RSA private key
........................++++++++++++
..........++++++++++++
writing new private key to 'testkey.pem'
-----
You are about to be asked to enter information that will be incorporated
into your certificate request.
What you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name or a DN.
There are quite a few fields but you can leave some blank
For some fields there will be a default value,
If you enter '.', the field will be left blank.
-----
Country Name (2 letter code) [AU]:AU
State or Province Name (full name) [Queensland]:
Locality Name (eg, city) []:Brisbane
Organization Name (eg, company) []:CryptSoft Pty Ltd
Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:.
Common Name (eg, YOUR name) []:Eric Young
Email Address []:[email protected]
2693744484:error:0D0C30C6:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_item_sign:digest
and key type not supported:a_sign.c:245:
problems creating request
make[1]: *** [test_gen] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/Users/kyanha/workspace/ossl/snap/openssl-SNAP-20090207/test'
make: *** [tests] Error 2

It also appears with the following command-line: ./config
--prefix=$HOME/ossl --openssldir=$HOME/ossl

-Kyle H


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dr. Stephen Henson <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 2:30 AM
Subject: Re: Openssl-SNAP still erroring out
To: [email protected]


On Fri, Feb 06, 2009, Kyle Hamilton wrote:

> This does not appear on MacOSX 10.5.6 (with 0.9.8-stable-SNAP-20090206).
>
> ./config threads shared no-sse2 enable-whrlpool enable-montasm
> enable-capieng enable-cms enable-seed enable-tlsext  enable-camellia
> enable-rfc3779 enable-mdc2 enable-rc5 zlib-dynamic
> --prefix=/usr/contrib --openssldir=/usr/contrib
>

You'd need to try the 0.9.9 snapshots to check the reported error. That bit of
code (the EVP_PKEY APIs) isn't in 0.9.8.

Steve.
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