Bug#426013: Problems with specific certificate/key (Debian Bug #426013)

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos n.mavrogiannopoulos at gmail.com
Wed Feb 27 21:07:02 UTC 2008


Mark Adams wrote:
> On Jan 3, 2008 2:36 AM, Marc Haber <mh+gnutls-devel at zugschlus.de> wrote:

> I'm using gnutls 2.0.4 at present (this is the current debian testing
> version). Is it possibly a known issue with this version? I can not
> install the new version at present, as this is a production server. I
> will be able to test this if you think it will correct the issue.
> 
> For reference, gnutls-serv and gnutl-client work with this cert/key
> pair. I can run the server fine using;
> 
> gnutls-serv --debug 5 --x509keyfile myhost_net.key --x509certfile myhost_net.crt
> 
> And the client can connect using;
> 
> gnutls-cli -p 5556 mail.myhost.net
> 
> however, when using certtool -i < my key file failes with the base 64
> decoding error.

This is normal. The -i parameter only reads certificates. You should use 
the -k option to parse the key. Do you use the same file to hold the key 
and the certificate? Also in your tests please use the -d 2 parameter to 
  output more verbose information.

regards,
Nikos





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