At 17:27 25.06.99 +0200, you wrote:
Hallo,
>Goetz Babin-Ebell wrote:
>> At 10:01 24.06.99 +0200, you wrote:
>> >I know that major WWW browsers have a set of compiled-in
>> >certificates like Verisign, Thawte etc. I need the same
>> >for my application. Where can I find certificates
>> >for Verisign, Thawte etc. ?
>>
>> You can extract the certificates from Netscape.
>> They are stored as PEM.
>> so all you have to do is a
>>
>> strings <netscape programm>
>What is "strings" ? Is it an executable ? Where can I find it ?
strings extracts printable strings from a binary file.
It is a system command in a "decend" system.
(Sorry, after a full day banging my head against Windows I'm perhaps
a little bit short tempered...)
>What do you mean by <netscape programm> ? Maybe netscape.exe ?
Yep.
You could try the folowing:
1. load Netscape.exe in a editor capable of handling so big binary files.
2. search for the string MIIC
3. extract everything until the next unprintable char
4. store this in a file
5. Add
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
before the string and
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
past the string
6. Add line breaks after every 64 chars to the string
7. save it to a file
8. continue with step 2.
OpenSSL should happily accept the exported certificates...
By
Goetz
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