Re: [pyOpenSSL] Creating certificates

[Remy C. C. <dev...@sm...>]

On Tuesday 09 March 2004 19:56, Remy C. Cool wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Two short questions:
>
> According to the doc string in createCertRequest (certgen.py) it
> must be possible to enter SP and email arguments, but both fail in
> my test code. I used mk_simple_certs.py as a base changing the
> line:
>
> careq = createCertRequest(cakey, CN='Certificate Authority')
> into
> careq = createCertRequest(cakey, CN='Certificate Authority',
> SP='State', email='me...@he...')
>
> Any solutions?

Found'em

When you use 'ST' instead of 'SP' and 'emailAddress' instead of 
'email' the certificates are generated without any problems. 
Is this a bug in the doc-string or something system dependent? 

So, if anyone knows the answer to the second question ... please let 
me know.

> And I would like to know if it's possible to create a (CA)
> certificate with a passphrase/password using pyOpenSSL?