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RE: openssl errors creating password for certificate authority (CA Request)
- From: "wwinzer at yahoo dot com" <wwinzer at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:28:26 EDT
- Subject: RE: openssl errors creating password for certificate authority (CA Request)
$ cygcheck -c openssl
Cygwin Package Information
Package Version Status
Openssl 0.9.8h-1 OK
-----Original Message-----
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 1:58 AM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: openssl errors creating password for certificate authority (CA Request)
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?
Corinna
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