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[SCM] GNU gnutls branch, master, updated. gnutls_2_9_7-3-gd1b5f97


From: Simon Josefsson
Subject: [SCM] GNU gnutls branch, master, updated. gnutls_2_9_7-3-gd1b5f97
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:47:23 +0000

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commit d1b5f97940fe09e3e2baf7da3b4968f7e53be034
Author: Simon Josefsson <address@hidden>
Date:   Wed Oct 14 11:47:19 2009 +0200

    Mention that sometimes CA certs needs to be included in PKCS#12 files.
    
    Reported by Ivars Suba <address@hidden>.

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Summary of changes:
 doc/gnutls.texi |   13 ++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/gnutls.texi b/doc/gnutls.texi
index bc167a1..5f168c5 100644
--- a/doc/gnutls.texi
+++ b/doc/gnutls.texi
@@ -2914,6 +2914,17 @@ $ certtool --load-certificate cert.pem --load-privkey 
key.pem \
   --to-p12 --outder --outfile key.p12
 @end example
 
+Some tools (reportedly web browsers) have problems with that file
+because it does not contain the CA certificate for the certificate.
+To work around that problem in the tool, you can use the
address@hidden parameter as follows:
+
address@hidden
+$ certtool --load-ca-certificate ca.pem \
+  --load-certificate cert.pem --load-privkey key.pem \
+  --to-p12 --outder --outfile key.p12
address@hidden example
+
 @item
 Proxy certificate can be used to delegate your credential to a
 temporary, typically short-lived, certificate.  To create one from the
@@ -3362,7 +3373,7 @@ applications, you will need to convert them into a 
PKCS#12 structure.
 This also encrypts the security sensitive key with a password.
 
 @example
-certtool --to-p12 --load-privkey x509-client-key.pem --load-certificate 
x509-client.pem --outder --outfile x509-client.p12
+certtool --to-p12 --load-ca-certificate x509-ca.pem --load-privkey 
x509-client-key.pem --load-certificate x509-client.pem --outder --outfile 
x509-client.p12
 @end example
 
 For icing, we'll create a proxy certificate for the client too.


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