On Sunday 27 May 2007 03:38, Victor Duchovni wrote:
> On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 12:13:38AM +0100, Mick wrote:
> > On Saturday 26 May 2007 21:38, Victor Duchovni wrote:
> > > On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 10:11:08PM +0200, Marek Marcola wrote:
> > > >  $ openssl x509 -in cert.pem -text -noout
> > > >  .
> > > >  .
> > > >          X509v3 extensions:
> > > >             X509v3 Basic Constraints:
> > > >                 CA:FALSE
> > > >             X509v3 Key Usage:
> > > >                 Digital Signature, Non Repudiation, Key Encipherment
> > > >  .
> > >
> > > Perhaps a mini-ca will help. See "ca.sh", "cert.sh" and "openssl.cnf"
> > > used as follows:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > Thanks Victor,
> >
> > Can you see anything amiss with my attached openssl.cnf?
>
> Sorry, for me openssl.cnf is a write-only interface... Perhaps someone
> else can help you. I find the files easier to write than read.

Just a clarification:  my user certificate has no x509v3 extensions as I 
mentioned in a previous message;  on the other hand my CA certificate has the 
following extensions:
=====================================================
[snip...]
        X509v3 extensions:
            X509v3 Subject Key Identifier: 
                3B:9A:F7:7D:8D:15:F2:5C:88:82:D8:C2:00:F2:7C:77:41:CD:79:AF
            X509v3 Authority Key Identifier: 
                
keyid:3B:9A:F7:7D:8D:15:F2:5C:88:82:D8:C2:00:F2:7C:77:41:CD:79:AF
                DirName: [snip...]
                serial:9A:32:DA:E9:94:87:E4:CD

            X509v3 Basic Constraints: 
                CA:TRUE
    Signature Algorithm: sha1WithRSAEncryption
=====================================================
There's no keyUsage in there.  

In my openssl.cnf I see this para which has been commented out:
=====================================================
# Key usage: this is typical for a CA certificate. However since it will
# prevent it being used as an test self-signed certificate it is best
# left out by default.
# keyUsage = cRLSign, keyCertSign
=====================================================
Is this significant, or related to my problem of getting all these errors in 
Kmail and gpgsm with the user certificates?
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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