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[Help-gnutls] Re: Beginner's question
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Simon Josefsson |
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[Help-gnutls] Re: Beginner's question |
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Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:09:10 +0200 |
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"Rainer Gerhards" <address@hidden> writes:
> I will generate a new one and record what I am doing. In the mean
> time, I've also found the sample .pem's inside the tarball (which I
> now downloaded). But, of course, I need to know how to generate the
> required files.
>
> Thanks again for your help, will post shortly...
No problem. For example credentials, see also:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/server.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/test-credentials/
Btw, if you are going to make rsylog use gnutls you might want to
download the gnutls tar ball and build it.
/Simon
> Rainer
>
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> "Rainer Gerhards" <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> > Hi there,
>> >
>> > I have just begun looking at GNUTls. I intend to implement TLS for my
>> > rsyslog project - http://www.rsyslog.com (a GPLed replacement
>> > syslogd). I am currently developing on Fedora 8 with GNUTls 1.6.3. I
>> > obtained and compiled the sample programs. However, I do not have any
>> > pem files and intended to create them via the steps outlined in
>> >
>> >
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/manual/gnutls/gnutls.html#SECTION00930000000000000000
>> >
>> > For my last try, I did exactly follow the steps on that page, from top
>> > to bottom. When I now run certtool --certificate-info, I get good info
>> > on ca-cert.pem, but for cert.pem I always just get "Decoding error:
>> > Base64 decoding error." (and of course the same happens inside my
>> > simple server).
>> >
>> > Any advise on what I am doing wrong would be deeply appreciated.
>>
>> Could you attache the cert.pem file?
>>
>> /Simon
>>