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Re: openssl errors creating password for certificate authority (CA Request)
>>>>> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> On Aug 27 00:33, Auteria W. Winzer Jr. wrote:
>> I opt to use a challenge password for sending a CA request. When I incorporate the challenge password I get the following error:
>>
>> Please enter the following 'extra' attributes
>> to be sent with your certificate request
>> A challenge password []:1234567890
>> Error adding attribute
>> 1896:error:0D0BA041:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_STRING_set:malloc failure:asn1_lib.c:381:
>> 1896:error:0B08A041:x509 certificate routines:X509_ATTRIBUTE_set1_data:malloc failure:x509_att.c:317:
>> problems making Certificate Request
>>
>> If I don't use the challenge password attribute everything works fine.
>>
>> Is it recommended to use a challenge password for CA requests? Your valuable imput is grately appreciated.
> It's hard to tell anything without a self-contained example which allows
> to reproduce this. There's a malloc failure, for whatever reason.
>> $ cygcheck -c cygwin
>> Cygwin Package Information
>> Package Version Status
>> cygwin 1.5.25-15 OK
> openssl version?
FWIW, I'm in the process of updating neon to the latest version and see the same error in the latest neon test suite with
openssl-0.9.8h (the latest):
Write out database with 1 new entries
Data Base Updated
+ MKPKCS12='/usr/bin/openssl pkcs12 -export -passout stdin -in client.cert -inkey client.key'
+ echo foobar
+ /usr/bin/openssl pkcs12 -export -passout stdin -in client.cert -inkey client.key -name 'Just A Neon Client Cert' -out client.p12
4212:error:0D0BA041:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_STRING_set:malloc failure:asn1_lib.c:381:
4212:error:0B08A041:x509 certificate routines:X509_ATTRIBUTE_set1_data:malloc failure:x509_att.c:317:
The test suite worked fine with the previous version of neon (the
current in cygwin 1.5) and openssl-0.9.8g (current at that time).
> Corinna
Ciao
Volker
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