Re: Problem with Registration Authority

Mary Ellen,

Thank you for your reply and suggestions.  I was able to solve this
problem.  I had been using a previous version of the .ini files with the
most recent build of the ca, ra, and ee.  When I copied the sample
.ini's included with the most recent build, it worked.

Thanks,
Tim

[email protected] wrote:
> 
> Hi Timothy,
> We haven't seen that problem here, and I couldn't find that literal error
> message in the places I expected to.
> 1) What snapshot you're using? (when you picked it up)
> 2) Is that the literal error message? If not, exactly what error message do
> you see?
> 3) Try a certificate request without selecting a key usage (not like that
> should make a difference, but I'm sure we tested a vanilla cert req for
> each drop)
> 4) Make sure you haven't taken anything out of the RA's .ini file that you
> shouldn't have (maybe copy it out again, changing only what you have to to
> get it to run).
>      Mez
> 
> 
>                     Timothy Fisher
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> 
>                     03/12/99 05:17
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>                     to timothyf
> 
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have successfully built and installed the Certificate Authority,
> Registration Authority, and End Entity on a single computer.
> 
> I initialized the object stores and tokens for each using the scinit
> commands.
> 
> >From the Registration Authority, I did a preregistration for a user.
> 
> >From the End Entity, I created a Certificate Request and submitted that
> to the RA.
> 
> At the RA, the Certificate Request did properly appear in the pending
> certificate list on the left.
> When I attempted to validate or approve the Certificate Request at the
> RA, I got an error that said "No Signature Algorithm Specified".
> 
> I am puzzled by this error.  When I created the request, I selected
> id-dsa as the algorithm for the certicate.  I also specified the
> certificate to have a key usage of "Digital Signature".
> 
> Can anyone help me out here?
> I've tried this several times, always with the same result (error of "no
> signature algorithm specified)
> 
> Thanks,
> Timothy Fisher
> [email protected]
> 
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