Re: openssl ca -revoke why need CA parm

2013-10-29 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On 28 Oct 2013, at 11:56, redpath redp...@us.ibm.com wrote: I would like to know why the openssl CA command to revoke a cert (myfiletorevoke) needs the CA cert other than the cert I want to revoke. openssl ca -revoke myfiletorevoke -keyfile cakey -cert cacert -passin pass:CApass

openssl ca -revoke why need CA parm

2013-10-28 Thread redpath
I would like to know why the openssl CA command to revoke a cert (myfiletorevoke) needs the CA cert other than the cert I want to revoke. openssl ca -revoke myfiletorevoke -keyfile cakey -cert cacert -passin pass:CApass -config myconfig I noticed that the command does not modify the cert I

Re: openssl ca -revoke why need CA parm

2013-10-28 Thread Stefan H. Holek
On 28.10.2013, at 11:56, redpath wrote: I would like to know why the openssl CA command to revoke a cert (myfiletorevoke) needs the CA cert other than the cert I want to revoke. This is to prove the authority of the operator. openssl ca -revoke myfiletorevoke -keyfile cakey -cert

Re: openssl ca -revoke

2013-07-30 Thread Jakob Bohm
On 20-07-2013 13:39, redpath wrote: Very nice tutorial http://pki-tutorial.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ So the issue is that there is no real Certificate Management Trust system available handling concurrency issues for a Database that works seamless with revocation commands and OCSP responder.

Re: openssl ca -revoke

2013-07-20 Thread Stefan H. Holek
On 19.07.2013, at 22:33, redpath wrote: The command openssl ca -revoke ./demoCA/newcerts/1008.pem -config myconfig.cnf -passin pass:password seems to just update a database, the 1008.pem is not touched. Can someone tell me what this command really does for revocation. Correct. You

Re: openssl ca -revoke

2013-07-20 Thread redpath
be used to secure store keys, but of course I need something to manage expiration of keys auto-magically. -- View this message in context: http://openssl.6102.n7.nabble.com/openssl-ca-revoke-tp45896p45900.html Sent from the OpenSSL - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com

openssl ca -revoke

2013-07-19 Thread redpath
The command openssl ca -revoke ./demoCA/newcerts/1008.pem -config myconfig.cnf -passin pass:password seems to just update a database, the 1008.pem is not touched. Can someone tell me what this command really does for revocation. Also why keep a list of revoked certs, just delete them