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Failed to sign CSR with the CA root key

I'm trying to implement Mutual Certificate Authentication , I have to be the CA and server at the same time , generate certificates and sign them for users. and I'm following this tutorial which is a ...
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Why is there a big delay after entering a wrong password?

I notice a weird (well, according to me) thing about passwords. For example, if I type an incorrect password during login, there will be a few seconds' delay before the system tells me so. When I try ...
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ssh remote server on some port other than 22 without password

I am usually connecting to the remote server with ssh user@server.com -p 11000 and then giving the password each time for user. How should I avoid entering the password each time I connect ...
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iPhone type login screen?

The person that introduced me to Fedora had somehow made his login screen so that instead of typing in a password he used the "connect the dots" password that's popular on phones. Eg On my ...
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How to telnet via proxy authentication?

I am behind a proxy server in my college. It uses a simple username and password authentication. And i connect to the proxy server to port 3128. now i want to telnet simply to say any website on the ...
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Configuring Apache to Require a Client Certificate

I want to implement mutual authentication (two - way ) with apache web server. References : 1.Failed to sign CSR with the CA root key 2.Firefox error message when adding client certificate ...
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Firefox error message when adding client certificate signed by CA

I'm getting this message when I'm trying to add a certificate to Firefox's "your certificate tab". I generated and signed it before by a server which also is a CA. Failed to decode the file. ...
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SSL Configurations for Intermediate certificate

I had implement a mutual certificate authentication and it worked successfully for following steps : create root ca (self-signed) create server certificate and sign it with ca private key create ...
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setting up ssh public key

Okay, so I'm trying to setup a login for logging in with ssh, using a public key. First, I am using puttygen to generate a rsa-ssh2 public key using a passphrase. I followed the directions and ...
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How to send mail from a remote SMTP host?

I have Postfix suite installed locally on Ubuntu 10.10. I can send/receive mail to my local address, e.g. user@local.com. I'm given credentials to a remote mail server mailbox, e.g. ...