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From: Buffalo Dickens <zwmaillist@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] openssl certificates generation under gentoo
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:26:15
Message-Id: 702684830703290120l478cc22aue3d4ec97ca0d182@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] openssl certificates generation under gentoo by Rumen Yotov
1 Many thanks Rumen! Actually I came across many error notifications during
2 self certificate generation under Windows 2003 with openssl. As this is
3 the gentoo maillist, I will not and should not paste the detailed error
4 messages here:)
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6 So I just want to bypass this step under Win, letting linux take this task
7 over. I do not know whether there will be some underlying conflict in doing
8 this.
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10 Also, I will study what you provide me carefully. Thanks a lot!
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13 You will when you BELIEVE.
14 Buffalo Dickens
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18 2007/3/29, Rumen Yotov <rumen@××××××.org>:
19 >
20 > On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:44:20 +0800
21 > "Buffalo Dickens" <zwmaillist@×××××.com> wrote:
22 >
23 > > Hi all! I am not familiar with openssl at all. Here I got a problem.
24 > > My Windows 2003 can not (or I can not) accomplish the task of
25 > > generating a private key file and a csr file. That holds up my
26 > > process of going on with authentication between it and other host
27 > > servers.
28 > >
29 > > I wonder if gentoo linux is able to help finish this step for Win? I
30 > > mean, using openssl under gentoo to generate a whole set of private
31 > > key and certificate and transferring them to Win host for its use. I
32 > > do not know whether that is feasible. Any suggestion will be
33 > > appreciated! Thank you!
34 > >
35 > Hi,
36 >
37 > IMO any linux can do this, you only need openssl (which is BTW also
38 > available for Windows, IIRC).
39 > Google for the concrete commands (generate a self-signed certificate).
40 > Or better try "openca.org" to do the work for you ;)
41 > HTH. Rumen
42 > --
43 > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
44 >
45 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] openssl certificates generation under gentoo Daniel Iliev <danny@××××××××.com>