Unencrypting The Private Key; Converting To A Pem-Formatted Certificate - Nortel 1000 Administration Manual

Chapter 2 Basic Administration
Generating a Secure Certificate

Unencrypting the Private Key

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Converting to a PEM-Formatted Certificate

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The following procedure is not needed if you use the Cygwin UNIX
environment to generate the CSR and private key. Follow this procedure
only if the method you use to generate the private key results in an
encrypted key.
To unencrypt the private key:
At the $ prompt enter the command: openssl rsa
If you enter this command without arguments, you will be prompted as
follows:
read RSA key
Enter the name of the password to be encrypted.
You can enter the openssl rsa command with arguments if you know the
name of the private key and the unencrypted PEM file.
For example, if the private key filename is my_keytag_key.pvk, and the
unencrypted filename is keyout.pem, you would enter openssl rsa -in
my_keytag_key.pvk -out keyout.pem.
For more information, refer to the following URL:
http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/rsa.html#EXAMPLES
For information on downloading OpenSSL for Windows, refer to the
following URL:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23617&release
_id=48801
The signed certificate file that you receive from your certificate provider
might not be in a PEM format. If the file is in binary format (DER), convert
it to PEM format as follows:
openssl x509 -in certFile -inform DER -outform PEM -out
convertedCertFile