Re: Java keytool certgen - Alertnative Subject Name

Kurt Roeckx <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.crypto
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2017-05-24 02:39, Roger Dunn wrote:
> We are moving from OpenSSL to Java to handle CSRs for our CA. Our devices require a custom 'description' field as part of the Subject sequence.
>
> (Related link)
> https://linux.die.net/man/3/x509_name_get_text_by_nid
>
> The following command line fails (we are using a HSM but that's not relevant to the question)
>
> java -Dprotect=module -DignorePassphrase=true sun.security.tools.keytool.Main -certreq -alias myalias
>      -file c:\mycerts\certs\cert23may.csr.pem -keypass 000000 -dname "C=US,ST=CA,L=Cupertino,O=Apple\ Computer,OU=MyUnit,CN=MyServer,description=1495543419"
> 	  -keystore c:\mycerts\private\may18_2017.ncsw -sigalg SHA256withECDSA -storepass 000000 -storetype nCipher.sworld
> 	
> keytool error: java.io.IOException: Invalid keyword "DESCRIPTION"

My guess is that it doesn't know the OID for description, which seems to 
be 2.5.4.13.


Kurt


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