In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:08:33 +0000, System Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
sysadmin> I wonder if anyone might be able to shed some light on a very sysadmin> strange phenomena we're seeing when we try to generate CSRs. sysadmin> sysadmin> I can create a key with sysadmin> :openssl genrsa ... sysadmin> and then I creat a certificate signing request with sysadmin> :openssl req -new -key keyfile.key -out csrfile.csr sysadmin> sysadmin> This goes through the normal questions, and creates the file sysadmin> "csrfile.csr" without any complaints. sysadmin> sysadmin> When I try to use this csr to generate a self-signed sysadmin> certificate I invariably get "signature did not match the sysadmin> certificate request". Could you please show us what command you used to do that? sysadmin> Further investigation leads to the fact that each new sysadmin> repetition of the same csr using the same key always sysadmin> produces a different signature on the csr, on one server, sysadmin> and yet the same key on a different server ALWAYS produces sysadmin> the same CSR (given the same DN and so on of course) And the OpenSSL version on that other server is? ----- Please consider sponsoring my work on free software. See http://www.free.lp.se/sponsoring.html for details. -- Richard Levitte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://richard.levitte.org/ "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -- C.S. Lewis ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
