Bug 631000

Summary:	rhel6 openssl creates PKCS#8 encoded PEM RSA private key files, nss can't read them
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Dennis Gilmore <dennis>
Component:	nss	Assignee:	Elio Maldonado Batiz <emaldona>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Aleš Mareček <amarecek>
Severity:	urgent	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	6.0	CC:	amarecek, dwmw2, ebenes, emaldona, gholms, herrold, rmeggins, rrelyea
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	6.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	nss-3.12.9-1.el6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2011-05-19 14:03:31 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	630102
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Description Dennis Gilmore 2010-09-07 15:16:28 UTC

Description of problem:

RHEL 6's openssl creates PKCS#8 encoded PEM RSA private key files.

nss can not read them,  it breaks using ssl cert auth with curl for instance.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. get ssl cert from FAS (Fedora Account System)
2. try and upload new sources to lookaside cache
3.
  
Actual results:
Fails with ssl error

Expected results:
sources to be uploaded

Additional info:

This has been fixed in Fedora

Comment 2 Elio Maldonado Batiz 2010-09-10 17:42:08 UTC

(In reply to comment #0) 
> This has been fixed in Fedora
Yes, and the associated Fedora bug was cloned for RHEL-6 as
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=630102

Comment 3 Elio Maldonado Batiz 2010-10-14 21:23:40 UTC

*** Bug 614531 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Elio Maldonado Batiz 2010-10-14 21:24:49 UTC

*** Bug 630102 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-19 14:03:31 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0692.html

Comment 15 David Woodhouse 2016-08-22 20:40:13 UTC

Works for unencrypted PKCS#8 keys. Doesn't seem to work if they have a passphrase...