X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:58:04 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: openssl errors creating password for certificate authority (CA Request) Message-ID: <20080827085804.GT29104@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <365885.40190.qm@web81101.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <365885.40190.qm@web81101.mail.mud.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Aug 27 00:33, Auteria W. Winzer Jr. wrote: > I opt to use a challenge password for sending a CA request. When I incorporate the challenge password I get the following error: > > Please enter the following 'extra' attributes > to be sent with your certificate request > A challenge password []:1234567890 > Error adding attribute > 1896:error:0D0BA041:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_STRING_set:malloc failure:asn1_lib.c:381: > 1896:error:0B08A041:x509 certificate routines:X509_ATTRIBUTE_set1_data:malloc failure:x509_att.c:317: > problems making Certificate Request > > If I don't use the challenge password attribute everything works fine. > > Is it recommended to use a challenge password for CA requests? Your valuable imput is grately appreciated. It's hard to tell anything without a self-contained example which allows to reproduce this. There's a malloc failure, for whatever reason. > $ cygcheck -c cygwin > Cygwin Package Information > Package Version Status > cygwin 1.5.25-15 OK openssl version? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/