Re: Error signing certificates with my own CA... Configuration file?

2010-09-29 Thread Patrick Patterson
Hi Chris: Although it sounds a bit overkill for what you are looking for, as part of our "CertiPath Test CA using OpenSSL" Howto, a goodly portion of the various settings and possible configurations of the parameters are explained, and scripts are also provided for generation of a number of dif

Re: Error signing certificates with my own CA... Configuration file?

2010-09-28 Thread Chris Rider
Not discouraged at all (just short on time trying to meet a deadline). I'll check out TinyCA (and the like) in the meantime, but actually do hope to delve into the source and figure out those directives when I get some time. I do appreciate your time and attention!! On 09/28/2010 09:41 AM,

Re: Error signing certificates with my own CA... Configuration file?

2010-09-28 Thread Mark H. Wood
I don't want to discourage you from learning the details yourself, but you may want to look at some wrapper software that is already worked out and takes care of these things for you. For example, I usually find TinyCA adequate to my minuscule certificate-processing needs. Even if you decide not

Error signing certificates with my own CA... Configuration file?

2010-09-27 Thread Chris Rider
I've found the alternative to self-signing (namely signing with your own CA) to be a potentially great path for the web application that we develop; however I can't quite figure out how exactly to tweak the configuration file to get what I want. It is hard (impossible?) to find any detailed i