Thanks!  FTP was the problem.  SCP transferred the file without corrupting it.

Dan.

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Dave Thompson
<dave.thomp...@princetonpayments.com> wrote:
>> From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org On Behalf Of Dan Letkeman
>> Sent: Thursday, 04 February, 2010 14:36
>
>> So i'm transferring it with FTP, could that be the problem?  Any other
>> way to transfer it to a windows machine?
>
>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Patrick Patterson
>> <ppatter...@carillonis.com> wrote:
>
>> > How are you transfering the file around? perhaps your
>> getting some form of
>> > corruption during your file transfer?
>
> Make sure you are in BINARY mode in FTP.
> It's not usually (perhaps not ever) the client default.
>
> When you get the file on the target, check its size in bytes
> matches exactly that from the origin. Even one byte difference
> in a binary file (like P12 DER) is fatal.
>
> To answer as asked (but probably superfluous):
>
> You could also use SFTP (Putty provides a Windows client)
> which AFAICT does ONLY binary/image/no-cleverness;
> (get and) run NFS software on the Windows machine
> so that Linux (or Unix) can mount and access it;
> or (get and) run Samba on Linux so that Windows can access it.
>
> Or (re)configure a webserver on the Linux to serve
> this file as application/octet-stream or a similar type
> that a browser on Windows (can't render and) will store.
>
> Or write to removable media in a Windows-understandable
> filesystem and move that to the Windows. Today that's
> USB memory or disk (probably FAT) or maybe CD-R;
> or floppy if you still have them.
>
>
>
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