# So close, but it doesn't work.

Frank Yellin (Frank.Yellin@eng.sun.com)
Fri, 12 Mar 1999 18:40:07 -0800

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    Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 18:40:07 -0800

    Message-Id: <199903130240.SAA11476@pan.eng.sun.com>

    From: Frank Yellin <Frank.Yellin@eng.sun.com>

    To: java-security@java.sun.com

    Subject: So close, but it doesn't work.

My attempts to get a verisign certificate ended in failure. I have no
idea whether it's verisign's problem or ours, but I figured you'd want
to know.

I go to the indicated verisign page, and it tells me instead to go

http://digitalid.verisign.com/server/trial/index.html

Fine. . . .

Several pages later, I paste in all the info, and it responds:

Online Enrollment Status: 12c

If you continue to get this error, and are sure that you entered
all of the information, please contact Customer service

An error message worthy of Microsoft! Absolutely no information whatsoever.

Is it expecting a domain name or an email address? keytool gave me no way
of entering that informatino.

The signature I'm attempting to sign is:

Alias name: cs255
Creation date: Fri Mar 12 14:41:51 PST 1999
Entry type: keyEntry
Certificate chain length: 1
Certificate[1]:
Owner: CN=Frank Yellin, OU=Consumer and Embedded, O=Sun Microsystems, L=Palo Alto, ST=CA, C=US
Issuer: CN=Frank Yellin, OU=Consumer and Embedded, O=Sun Microsystems, L=Palo Alto, ST=CA, C=US
Serial number: 36e997bf
Valid from: Fri Mar 12 14:39:59 PST 1999 until: Thu Jun 10 15:39:59 PDT 1999
Certificate fingerprints:
MD5: C0:5B:5C:0B:24:DA:33:82:00:FC:1F:19:AE:25:24:11
SHA1: F8:E7:73:D8:0A:52:C1:58:A3:CA:DE:97:14:27:63:A9:DF:6D:CD:02

The actual signature request is below. Alas, this is gibberish to me.

-----BEGIN NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----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-----END NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----

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