> From: owner-openssl-...@openssl.org On Behalf Of Brian Bruce via RT
> Sent: Wednesday, 18 May, 2011 04:13
(This is not a dev question.)
> I downloaded Win32OpenSSL-1_0_0d.exe and installed to C:\Program
Files\OpenSSL-Win32.
I assume you mean the ShiningLight build (www.slproweb.com).
> openssl.my.cfg (a copy of the supplied openssl.cfg file)
<snip>
> "C:\Program Files\OpenSSL-Win32\bin\openssl.exe" req -config
openssl.my.cfg <snip>
> 3572:error:0E079065:configuration file routines:DEF_LOAD_BIO:missing
equal sign:
> .\crypto\conf\conf_def.c:362:line 1
> The first four digit numeral (3572) seems to be random as it is
different
> every time I have tried any openssl.exe command.
It's the "threadid" of/in the program and is different for each execution
of *any* program. It's almost certainly not truly random, but it probably
depends on enough Windows specifics and internals it might as well be.
> Explain to me what I may be doing incorrectly?
There is something wrong on line 1 of your config file, openssl.my.cfg.
How exactly did you copy it? Did you edit it at all?
On modern Windows (since Vista at least, maybe XP)
Notepad and Wordpad like to write files in Unicode formats
which have 16-bit characters and/or a "byte order mark"
at beginning of file, either of which will screw up OpenSSL.
Other Windows editor programs may or may not do the same.
Try an exact copy (drag&drop or commandline COPY) of openssl.cfg.
If you need to make changes, either be careful to save as
non-Unicode (may be called "ANSI") or use the console-mode
(DOS-style) EDIT program -- it's too old to know about Unicode.
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