You are right! I renamed the files and then c_rehash them. It seemed
that hash files were generated. And yes, I guess my *.crt files
actually already encoded in PEM format.

I am a newbie, and do not know much about CoSign. If you have
interest, you can check its website: www.weblogin.org :) This is a
tool used for Single Sign-On.

I am grateful for your help!

2007/4/13, Bernhard Froehlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Buffalo Dickens schrieb:
> Dear Ted, yes, I found that too. It just looks for *.pem files. I just
> used the c_rehash from the source code package of openssl-0.9.8e. Is
> it feasible for me to just rename file.crt to file.pem?

openssl usually does not rely on filenames or extensions, with only a
few exceptions (I guess you already found most of them). So you can just
rename your *.crt-files to *.pem.

Note beside: Some people use the extension "*.crt" for DER encoded data
(a binary file format) and "*.pem" for PEM encoded data (an ASCII file
format). To change the encoding it would be necessary to use the
"openssl x509" tool. But since your files work with "openssl verify" as
you described, they obviously are already PEM encoded.
> Or is there an
> appropriate and graceful method for this transformation?
>
> Oh, I just want to deploy a software called CoSign for my websites.
> But I kept coming across problems with certificates.
OK, then it may help to understand how openssl handles certificates,
expecially if CoSign uses openssl (I don't know that software).
Something that just jumps to my mind: maybe that software expects DER
encoded certificates?

Ted
;)

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