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J.D
PostPosted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 5:41 pm    Post subject: Error in adding CA signed cert Reply with quote

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Hi,
I'm trying to secure server connection channel using CA signed cert between MQ Server and app server. Our Security team has build their own PKI to manage certificates and they will sign the certs for us instead of approaching 3rd party. Below are the steps i followed:
1. Genarated CSR with name abc.arm
2. Sent the CSR to get it signed
3. Got the signed cert (abc.p7b) as well as trust cert (trust.p7b) (.p7b is standard maintained by security team who are handling the certs)
4. Added trust cert to key database successfully.
5. Getting an error while receiving the signed cert to key database and the error says "An error occured while inserting keys to the database".

Is it must to have cert with extension .arm or .cer in MQ?

OS-Solaris 10, MQ-6.0.2.2
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Vitor
PostPosted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:44 pm    Post subject: Re: Error in adding CA signed cert Reply with quote

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J.D wrote:
(.p7b is standard maintained by security team who are handling the certs)


No it isn't, it's the extension of an X 509 PKCS 7 certificate that is a different format to that of a cer extended file.

J.D wrote:
Is it must to have cert with extension .arm or .cer in MQ?


I suspect that the certificate you're presenting doesn't have all the information the queue manager requires as indicated here.

I've certainly never used anything other than binary or Base64 cer files.But that doesn't prove anything.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 6:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Make sure your CA is able to provide you with an X509 certificate. When requesting the certificate you have to provide the X500 principal. This is why you need the Distinguished Name (DN). Create another request with the correct DN information, have it signed, have the CA provide you with the X509 version of the certificate and import that. You should have no problem.

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J.D
PostPosted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 8:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Issue is resolved now. Got an error because i downloaded the cert in binary format but while adding into key data base used the default selection which is Ascii.

Thanks for your replies.
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