You should import only client.p12 certificate in IE browser and
when IE asks you in which folder you want to put it select Personal Folder.

I hope it helps you.

Luca Ercoli


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mahesh S Kudva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 5:08 PM
Subject: Client Authentication


> Dear All
>
> I've been able to setup Tomcat 5.0.30 successfully on port 8443. I want to
> use client authentication. Hence i've enabled clientAuth=true in
> server.xml
>
> Running on Mac OS X these were the commands to create a CA and sign a
> certificate using this CA.
>
> Creating a new CA:
> 1) perl CA.pl -newca
>
> Certificate request using openssl:
> 1) perl CA.pl -newreq
> 2) perl CA.pl -sign
> 3) mv newreq.pem client_req.pem
> 4) mv newcert.pem client_cert.pem
> 5) openssl rsa < client_req.pem > client_key.pem
> 6) openssl pkcs12 -export -in client_cert.pem -inkey client_key.pem -out
>    client.p12
>
> For Tomcat using Java keytool to request certificate:
> 1) openssl x509 -in server_cert.pem -out server.x509
> 2) openssl pkcs12 -export -in server_cert.pem -inkey server_key.pem
>    -out server.p12
> 3) keytool -genkey -alias meAsClient -storepass changeit
> 4) keytool -certreq -alias measclient -file client.csr -storepass changeit
> 5) openssl x509   -req -CA demoCA/cacert.pem -CAkey
>    demoCA/private/cakey.pem -extensions v3_ca -in client.csr -inform DER
>    -out client_cert.x509 -CAcreateserial
> 6) keytool -import -alias butterflyCA -keystore /Syst.. ..urity/cacerts
>    -file ../CA/demoCA/cacert.pem
> 7) keytool -import -alias measclient -keystore clientstore -trustcacerts
>    -file client_cert.x509
>
>
> Following these commands I dont get any errors. I then import the
> cacert.pem, the ROOT CA certificate and the client.p12 and
> client_cert.x509 to the browser I.E 6.0. But still there is a popup
> requesting for the clients identity and it asks me to select a
> certificate and no certificates are displayed.
>
> How can I go about this?
>
>
> All suggestion and ideas are welcome.
>
>
>
> Regards & Thanks
> ================
> Mahesh S Kudva
>
>
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