David Lang wrote:
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> did you ever get an answer back on this? I am looking at doing the same
> thing and having difficulties figuring out what I need to do.
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> David Lang
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> On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Mathieu Legare wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > I have just used the pkcs12 method explain by Dr. Henson to
> > extract an SSL private key from a Netscape Enterprise .db file.
> > I got a plain text file in this format (LocalkeyId changed) :
> >
> > key.pem
> > ===============================================================
> > Bag Attributes
> > friendlyName: *.mydomain.com's Thawte Consulting cc ID
> > localKeyID: E6 34 64 67 B2 C2 93 91 65 95 48 28 F1 C1 76 AA 78 01 E9
> > 11
> > Key Attributes: <No Attributes>
> > ===============================================================
> >
> > I got the key.pem file by running this command :
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> > openssl pkcs12 -nocerts -in cert.p12 -out key.pem
> >
> > The problem is that I want to use the private key I am using
> > with Netscape Enterprise Server with Apache SSL. I guess this
> > is a plain text private key, so I probably need to encode the
> > key.pem file in the right format with the right parameters.
> > How could I do this from key.pem with openssl ?
> >
I'm not sure whether from this description you want to use an OpenSSL
PEM format private key with a Netscape server or you already have a
private key in a Netscape server you want converting to PEM format (and
hence usable by Apache-SSL).
There are solutions to both on my homepage which some have reported
work.
Steve.
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