E-mail encryption

[Leif Neland]

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>> It extracts the key alright, but it is not in a proper base64
>> encoded .cer format
>> It is the raw key.
>>
>> I.e. it lookes like this:
>> 0M-^B^E00M-^B^D^X ^C^B^A^B^B^D?¼^B^@0^M^F
>> *M-^FHM-^F÷^M^A^A^E^E^@011^K0   ^F^CU^D^F^S^BDK1^L0
>> ^F^CU^D
>> ^S^CTDC1^T0^R^F^CU^D^C^S^KTDC OCES
>> CA0^^^W^M031227160115Z^W^M051227163115Z0s1^K0
>> ^F^CU^D^F^S^BDK1)0'^F^CU^D
>> ^S Ingen organisatorisk tilknytning190^R^F^CU^D^C^S^KLeif
>> Neland0#^F^CU^D^E^S^\PID:9208-2002-2-6898543449640M-^AM-^_0^M^F
>>
>> But my .cer file looks like this:
>> -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
>> MIIFMDCCBBigAwIBAgIEP7wCADANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQUFADAxMQswCQYDVQQGEwJESzEMMAoGA1UE^M
>> ChMDVERDMRQwEgYDVQQDEwtUREMgT0NFUyBDQTAeFw0wMzEyMjcxNjAxMTVaFw0wNTEyMjcxNjMx^M
>> MTVaMHMxCzAJBgNVBAYTAkRLMSkwJwYDVQQKEyBJbmdlbiBvcmdhbmlzYXRvcmlzayB0aWxrbnl0^M
>>
>> Leif
>>
> Well that looks like they're stored in DER format. If you'd like them
> as PEM, just use openssl x509 to convert them:
> openssl x509 -in ./aaa.der -inform DER -out aaa.pem -outform PEM

Not quite:
-bash-2.05b# openssl x509 -in ./20051021000346-leif\@neland.dk -inform 
DER -out leif at neland.dk.cer -outform PEM
unable to load certificate
27297:error:0D0680A8:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_CHECK_TLEN:wrong 
tag:/usr/src/secure/lib/libcrypto/../../../crypto/openssl/crypto/asn1/tasn_dec.c:946:
27297:error:0D07803A:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_ITEM_EX_D2I:nested asn1 
error:/usr/src/secure/lib/libcrypto/../../../crypto/openssl/crypto/asn1/tasn_dec.c:304:Type=X509_CINF
27297:error:0D08303A:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_TEMPLATE_D2I:nested asn1 
error:/usr/src/secure/lib/libcrypto/../../../crypto/openssl/crypto/asn1/tasn_dec.c:566:Field=cert_info, 
Type=X509

Leif

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