Keeping the same private key on your root CA allows for all certificates to continue to validate successfully against the new root; all that’s required of you is to trust the new root. The certificate signing relationship is based on a signature from the private key; keeping the same private key (and, implicitly, the same … Read more
“Enter PEM pass phrase” because openssl doesn’t want to output private key in clear text. The password is used to output encrypted private key Below command can be used to output private key in clear text. No password is then asked.
In practice, the most common reason for this happening seems to be that the .rnd file in your home directory is owned by root rather than your account. The quick fix: For more information, here’s the entry from the OpenSSL FAQ: Sometimes the openssl command line utility does not abort with a “PRNG not seeded” error … Read more
You’re correct – it’s short for “development package”. For Linux, you need a command like this: yum install openssl openssl-devel # for Redhat/Centos/openSUSE apt-get install openssl openssl-dev # for Debian/Ubuntu Note: these commands use the “package manager” to install both openssl (which it sounds like you already have: but it wouldn’t hurt to do an install), and … Read more
Turned out the problem was with my installation of pyOpenSSL, pyOpenSSL-0.15.1 . I did: and then …and my Python script worked again!
I am running Windows Vista and am attempting to connect via https to upload a file in a multi part form but I am having some trouble with the local issuer certificate. I am just trying to figure out why this isnt working now, and go back to my cURL code later after this is … Read more
We have implemented tls using openssl. While downloading larger data from server getting SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL error after receiving the some data. For smaller files I am not getting this error, able to download without any error. ERR_get_error() is showing zero for larger files. We are using linux and c++ framework. How to find reason for the failure? What … Read more