[Help-gnutls] Re: Error making certificate

Simon Josefsson simon at josefsson.org
Thu Mar 15 12:18:55 CET 2007


devel <dev001 at pas-world.com> writes:

> Where I can find 1.6.2 ?

Try the daily build first:

http://josefsson.org/daily/gnutls-1.6/gnutls-1.6-20070315.tar.gz

If it works for you, I'll release it as 1.6.2.

Thanks,
Simon

>
> El lun, 12-03-2007 a las 16:52 +0100, Simon Josefsson escribió:
>> devel <dev001 at pas-world.com> writes:
>> 
>> > certtool (GnuTLS) 1.6.1
>> > linux x64
>> >
>> >
>> >> certtool -q --outfile new-user.csr
>> > Certificate request data input in a shell, certtool ask for it.
>> 
>> Thanks!  I can reproduce it.  It seems pkix_asn1_tab.c wasn't
>> re-generated after fixing the following problem in 1.6.1:
>> 
>>  ** Encode UID fields in DN's as DirectoryString.  Before GnuTLS
>>  encoded and parsed UID fields as IA5String.  This was incorrect, it
>>  should have used DirectoryString.  Now it will use DirectoryString
>>  for the UID field, but for backwards compatibility it will also
>>  accept IA5String UID's.  Reported by Max Kellermann
>>  <max at duempel.org>.
>> 
>> I have fixed this in CVS for the 1.6.x branch:
>> 
>>  ** Regenerate the PKIX ASN.1 syntax tree.  For some reason, after
>>  changing the ASN.1 type of ldap-UID in the last release, the
>>  generated C file built from the ASN.1 schema was not refreshed.  This
>>  can cause problems when reading/writing UID components inside X.500
>>  Distinguished Names.  Reported by devel <dev001 at pas-world.com>.
>> 
>> Please test tomorrow's daily build and tell me if it solves the
>> problem for you, and I can release 1.6.2.
>> 
>> Btw, if anyone wants something in 1.6.2, now would be the time to ask
>> for it.
>> 
>> /Simon
>> 
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > El lun, 12-03-2007 a las 13:40 +0100, Simon Josefsson escribió:
>> >> devel <dev001 at pas-world.com> writes:
>> >> 
>> >> > Hello, I am trying to use certtool to make certificate, like another
>> >> > times.
>> >> > But this time, with another version of gnutls and other arch, my script
>> >> > do not work. Here is de problem:
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >> certtool -p > new-user.key
>> >> >
>> >> > Work
>> >> >> certtool -q --outfile new-user.csr --load-privkey new-user.key --password $PASS
>> >> >
>> >> > fail, response of system after input parameters:
>> >> >
>> >> >> set_dn: ASN1 parser: Element was not found.
>> >> >
>> >> > Any suggestion?
>> >> 
>> >> Can you send me the CSR that trigger the problem?  Which version of
>> >> GnuTLS are you using, and which version of GnuTLS worked before for
>> >> you?
>> >> 
>> >> It sounds as if the CSR doesn't contain some field which certtool need
>> >> to have.
>> >> 
>> >> /Simon
>> > -- 
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