Thank you Dr. Henson,

Adding NEW to the Begin and End Request statements took care of the problem.


James Kleinschmidt
Sr. Analyst, Signal Corporation
IM/IT Specialist, CDMRP
1077 Patchel Street
Ft. Detrick, MD 21702-5024
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 -----Original Message-----
From:   Dr S N Henson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Tuesday, February 20, 2001 6:16 PM
To:     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:        Re: Invalid DER Encoded Cert. Request





"Kleinschmidt, James S Mr Signal Corp" wrote:
>
>                 Hello all,
>
>                 I created a csr.pem file using openssl in the NT
> environment.  I then attempted to submit it to the DoD Certification
> Processing Center.  The Center's web-site rejected the request do to
> "Invalid DER Encode" information.
>
>                 Any suggestions?
>

Maybe its the NEW header issue. Some CAs need NEW in the header (i.e.
BEGIN NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST and similarly for END). You can try
editing the PEM file or using the -newhdr option.

Steve.
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