[Help-gnutls] Re: Beginner's question

[Simon Josefsson]

"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