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Oracle has a handy little tool called Oracle Wallet Manager (OWM), and
by
'handy' I mean 'pain in the neck.' Anyways, in order to
secure your
transmissions via the oracle client you have to use the OWM.
Right! I am
not going to go into detail about OWM. Suffice it to say that
when you
create a wallet, in OWM, it creates a key and a csr (which are not
inter
changeable with other KEY/CSR/CRT pairs.) So, I want to become my own
CA so
I can sign my own certs with out having to pay big money to VeriSign
or
Thawte. So I followed the instruction on using openssl and CA.pl
to create
my own self signed root CA. All goes well! Then I try to import
my self
signed root CA (cacert.pem) into the OWM as a trust point and it fails
saying that the cert is invalid. I then tried to import the same
cacert.pem
into MSIE. It works fine. I then export the cert form MSIE
to x509 etc
format and import it back into OWM. It fails again. I have
searched hi and
lo for info on what type of format OWM expects for its trust point
certs. I
have had success importing the Thawte and VeriSign test certs.
So I am
wondering, am I doing something wrong as the CA? I have tried
exporting the
cacert.pem to DER format and still no-go. Am I using the correct
cert
(cacert.pem) as the CA? Does anyone else have any experience
with being
their own CA and OWM?
-- ####################################### # Christian Ullman # Software Development Engineer # Verio Inc. # [EMAIL PROTECTED] # 801.437.7474 - Phone #######################################
