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mqwbiwf
PostPosted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:49 pm    Post subject: Issue with certificates Reply with quote

Centurion

Joined: 21 Jul 2006
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One of our clients use MQ IPT 1.3 to connect to an MQ server 6.0, but the certificate of the URL that they use got expired. And now they are having issues establishing the connection.

I've very little knowledge about certs, but after going through the documentation, looks like we have to generate the PFX and PWD files ourselves. Did I understand that correctly, or will they be given by a CA?

If we have to generate them, could some one guide me? Here's what I've done so far:

Started KeyMan that comes with MQ 6.0
Database type - PKCS12
Added the CA certificate to the database (key.p12) with a password/stash file
(key.sth)

But I'm not sure how to create the PFX and PWD files using the above. The steps given in document refer to some actions which I don't really find in keyman, so would be greatly appreciated if someone could guide me here!

Thanks much.
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fschofer
PostPosted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 1:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Knight

Joined: 02 Jul 2001
Posts: 524
Location: Mainz, Germany

Hi,

this redpaper may help you:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp4140.pdf

Greetings
Frank
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mqwbiwf
PostPosted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 1:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Joined: 21 Jul 2006
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Thanks for that info. I did go through the document, but I think I'm missing something quite simple here. Now, after trying a few other things, I increased the trace level to 5on MQ IPT and found from the error logs:

Loading token from C:\MQIPT\ssl\entrust_cert.pfx using password from C:\MQIPT\ssl\entrust_cert.pwd

Error reading password file (C:\MQIPT\ssl\entrust_cert.pwd), p1=java.io.EOFException

Error reading key ring file (C:\MQIPT\ssl\entrust_cert.pfx) : , p1=java.io.IOException: java.io.EOFException

I have the pwd file saved in plain text format. Looks like it has to be in the encrypted format, and I tried all possible ways using the keyman and ikeyman, but could not find any activity that does this.

Would appreciate if someone could throw some ideas.
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mqwbiwf
PostPosted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Joined: 21 Jul 2006
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sorry abt tht
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