IIRC RSARef was RSA Labs reference implementation library. You needed it inside the US because the RSA algorithms were patented and it could have been illegal to use OpenSSL's. The patent has since expired and you no longer need RSARef.
FreeBSD 4.4 has OpenSSL build in, why are you using the port? Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: "dirk van der Giesen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 11:05 AM Subject: Unable to find an RSAREF shared library (librsaref.so) > Dear Users > > I try to create a CA for Verisign to sign on freeBSD > 4.4 which has openssl installed in /usr/local/ssl > > First i had the some kind of problem with the config > file (openssl.cnf) which it couldn't find and i solved > like this: > > "openssl req -new -nodes -keyout private.key -out > public.csr -config ../openssl.cnf" > > then i got this... > > "Using configuration from ../openssl.cnf > Generating a 1024 bit RSA private key > ......+++++ > ..+++++ > writing new private key to 'private.key' > -----" > etc. etc.... > > I could enter all kinds of stuff and after my password > assignment it failed/ended with the folowing > errormessage: > > ** RSAPrivateEncrypt: Unable to find an RSAREF shared > library (librsaref.so). > ** Install the /usr/ports/security/rsaref port or > package and run this > ** program again. See Chapter 6.5 in the FreeBSD > Handbook, located at > ** http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/openssl.html, for > more information. > 74022:error:0D072006:asn1 encoding > routines:ASN1_sign:bad get asn1 object > call:/usr/src/secure/lib/libcrypto/../../../crypto/openssl/crypto/asn1/a_sig n.c:126: > > > Thanks in advance, > > Dirk van der Giesen > Curacao > (Netherlands Antilles) > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! > http://mail.yahoo.com/ > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
