Yes that was it. I was literally mailed ascii text that had to be saved to the server.crt file so I thought it was in PEM format, but apparently it's not. I successfully verified my certificate which was all I needed to do. Thanks!
-----Original Message----- From: Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker [mailto:levitte@;stacken.kth.se] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 3:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: help needed! error trying to verify a certificate In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 13 Nov 2002 16:10:07 -0600, "Mitchel, Jennifer (Jem)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: mitchelj> I am typing the command: ./openssl x509 -noout -text -in server.crt mitchelj> mitchelj> and I am getting the error: mitchelj> mitchelj> unable to load certificate mitchelj> 19713:error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line:pem_lib.c:663:Expecting: TRUSTED CERTIFICATE OpenSSL expects PEM (ASCII) format by default. server.crt is probably in raw DER form, so you need to use the following command: ./openssl x509 -noout -text -in server.crt -inform d -- Richard Levitte \ Spannvägen 38, II \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Redakteur@Stacken \ S-168 35 BROMMA \ T: +46-8-26 52 47 \ SWEDEN \ or +46-708-26 53 44 Procurator Odiosus Ex Infernis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the OpenSSL development team: http://www.openssl.org/ Unsolicited commercial email is subject to an archival fee of $400. See <http://www.stacken.kth.se/~levitte/mail/> for more info. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
