Bug#403072: [Pkg-gnutls-maint] Re: Bug#403072: exim4-daemon-light fails to use equifax SSL cert/key obtained from "1&1" hosting

[Felix Palmen]

* James Westby <jw+debian at jameswestby.net> [20061215 18:24]:
> However I think there is still a bug. GnuTLS can create PKCS#8 keys
> (certtool -p -8), so I think it should be able to read them. I just
> generated one with the above command, and then certtool -k failed with a
> base64 decoding error.

At least, the source of the problem is not obvious to the user at all.

> So this bug should be to add support for reading PKCS#8 keys, or at the
> very least give a sensible error message.

Agreed. After all, there is pkcs8-decoding code in the library, so
it should not be to hard to make it recognize a key starting with
-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY----- and try pkcs8 on it.

> Have you got your certificate up and running with the converted one now?

Yes, thank you, for me this problem is solved now :) (i'm back to the
official debian exim4 packages)

Regards,
Felix

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