Bug#426013: exim4-daemon-heavy Base64 decoding error

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2007-05-25 Mark Adams <mark at campbell-lange.net> wrote:
> Package: exim4-daemon-heavy
> Version: 4.63-17

> Hi,

> Currently trying to setup SMTPS with a comodo ssl certificate. This is
> an RSA cert encoded as Base64. The following error is received;

> 2007-05-13 22:02:17 TLS error on connection from myhost.net [217.147.xx.xx]
>     (cert/key set up: cert=/etc/exim4/certificates/newserver_co_uk.crt
>      key=/etc/exim4/certificates/newserver_co_uk.pem) : Base64 decoding error.
[...]

Is the key in PEM format?

If it is in PKCS#8 format (Notable by "-----BEGIN ENCRYPTED
PRIVATE KEY-----" instead of "BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY") converting
with openssl pkcs8 might help.

cu andreas

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