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mallik

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Aug 5, 2003, 1:32:03 PM8/5/03
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Hi.

I am trying to build my own SSL certificate using utils.CertGen and i cannot.
I am on wl 7.0 sp3 on win2k and

(1) I copied WL_HOME\server\lib\CertgenCA.der and WL_HOME\server\lib\CertGenCAKey.der
to a seperate directory
(2) error:
C:\work\SSLCertificates>java utils.CertGen myPwd localCertFile localKeyFile
Creating Domestic Key Strength - 1024
..... Certificate CommonName will contain Hostname KUNDULA_M-DGS
Encoding
..............................................................................................................................................
Created Private Key files - localKeyFile.der and localKeyFile.pem
com.rsa.certj.cert.CertificateException: Cannot build Cert Request Info: Unable
to encode X500Name.
at com.rsa.certj.cert.PKCS10CertRequest.getCertRequestInfoDEREncoding(PKCS10CertRequest.java:824)
at com.rsa.certj.cert.PKCS10CertRequest.signCertRequest(PKCS10CertRequest.java:1082)
at utils.CertGen.createCertificateRequest(CertGen.java:312)
at utils.CertGen.processCommand(CertGen.java:185)
at utils.CertGen.main(CertGen.java:170)
com.rsa.certj.cert.CertificateException: Cannot build Cert Request Info: Unable
to encode X500Name.
at com.rsa.certj.cert.PKCS10CertRequest.getCertRequestInfoDEREncoding(PKCS10CertRequest.java:824)
at com.rsa.certj.cert.PKCS10CertRequest.signCertRequest(PKCS10CertRequest.java:1082)
at utils.CertGen.createCertificateRequest(CertGen.java:312)
at utils.CertGen.processCommand(CertGen.java:185)
at utils.CertGen.main(CertGen.java:170)


Any ideas ?

Thanks,
Mallik

Kumar Allamraju

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Aug 7, 2003, 1:51:36 PM8/7/03
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You better off post this questions to security newsgroup.
You will get much better answer there.

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Kumar

Mallik

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Aug 15, 2003, 11:33:54 AM8/15/03
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The problem was that the hostname had an underscore which is a problem in the X500
generation.

-mallik

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