[Pki-users] CMCEnroll: java.io.IOException: Internal Error - java.io.IOException: Sequence tag error 9

Marc Sauton msauton at redhat.com
Thu Oct 30 19:20:23 UTC 2008


Jan Meijer wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm trying to get CMC signed enrollment to work.
>
> What I want to do is create certificate requests via a web based tool
> on one server, and ship them to the CA for auto-vetting.  It looks like in
> my situation using signed CMC is the most simple solution.
>
>
> I *think* I have set everything up correctly but, when I try to test my
> assumption by using either CMCEnroll or CMCRequest to create a CMC request
> I get the following error:
>
> [root at ebbe test]# CMCEnroll -d "/root/test/cmc-agent/" -n "cmc" -r
> "/root/test/test3.csr" -p "bla"
> cert/key prefix =
> path = /root/test/cmc-agent/
> java.io.IOException: Internal Error - java.io.IOException: Sequence tag
> error 9
>         at com.netscape.cmstools.CMCEnroll.getCMCBlob(CMCEnroll.java:133)
>         at com.netscape.cmstools.CMCEnroll.main(CMCEnroll.java:412)
>   
There is something going on with your certificate request in 
/root/test/test3.csr
> and the same error comes when using CMCRequest.
>
> Now, this is NOT an error with the CA setup, as the CA doesn't come in
> play yet, no?  Unfortunately I haven't debugged enough Java problems yet
> to understand what the error means.  Maybe there's some library/class
> missing somewhere?
>
> If anyone could help out that would be great :)
>
>
> I'm running Fedora 9 and DogTag 1.00, package list is below:
>
> [root at ebbe test]# yum list | grep pki
> pki-ca.noarch                            1.0.0-6.fc9            installed
> pki-ca-ui.noarch                         1.0.0-1.fc9            installed
> pki-common.noarch                        1.0.0-8.fc9            installed
> pki-common-ui.noarch                     1.0.0-2.fc9            installed
> pki-console.noarch                       1.0.0-4.fc9            installed
> pki-console-ui.noarch                    1.0.0-1.fc9            installed
> pki-java-tools.noarch                    1.0.0-1.fc9            installed
> pki-native-tools.i386                    1.0.0-1.fc9            installed
> pki-ra.noarch                            1.0.0-2.fc9            installed
> pki-ra-ui.noarch                         1.0.0-1.fc9            installed
> pki-setup.noarch                         1.0.0-2.fc9            installed
> pki-util.noarch                          1.0.0-2.fc9            installed
> krb5-pkinit-openssl.i386                 1.6.3-10.fc9           fedora
> pki-common-javadoc.noarch                1.0.0-8.fc9            pki
> pki-java-tools-javadoc.noarch            1.0.0-1.fc9            pki
> pki-kra.noarch                           1.0.0-2.fc9            pki
> pki-kra-ui.noarch                        1.0.0-2.fc9            pki
> pki-manage.noarch                        1.0.0-1.fc9            pki
> pki-migrate.noarch                       1.0.0-1.fc9            pki
> pki-ocsp.noarch                          1.0.0-2.fc9            pki
> pki-ocsp-ui.noarch                       1.0.0-1.fc9            pki
> pki-silent.noarch                        1.0.0-1.fc9            pki
> pki-tks.noarch                           1.0.0-2.fc9            pki
> pki-tks-ui.noarch                        1.0.0-1.fc9            pki
> pki-tps.i386                             1.0.0-2.fc9            pki
> pki-tps-ui.noarch                        1.0.0-2.fc9            pki
> pki-util-javadoc.noarch                  1.0.0-2.fc9            pki
>
>
>
> The contents of test3.csr:
>
> [root at ebbe test]# cat test3.csr
>
> Certificate request generated by Netscape certutil
> Phone: (not specified)
>
> Common Name: test4
> Email: (not specified)
> Organization: (not specified)
> State: (not specified)
> Country: (not specified)
>
> -----BEGIN NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----
> MIIBTzCBuQIBADAQMQ4wDAYDVQQDEwV0ZXN0NDCBnzANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOB
> jQAwgYkCgYEA5wv8VPSNH7HH0Nsdr2/3xu3fqglDbQUz8CxhFvFHXm26a1DlyC+l
> pqZXCgozJzpb1N5EXDR/Wg1VVbcJNnKyvJOa4XqOqqAPFKLfH5GhAijOIIQRuLL/
> WHlUeY2LUHcLCZ257b9QEOTrR6iVZPp74r2l7CBkXQ3zvx4PRfX2eY8CAwEAAaAA
> MA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBBQUAA4GBAB6R3Gf4koSXucYifCIFri3vTSt2ThK7GpKrYe86
> JLYOTk4aNdaL/wZDNBLnnw8if8Gv2y/LcpR7Qvto52uckCA2+rRWEYmHhDs8NF6U
> q0HuaYaUgN1kdOqrzjGFaZxG5eSJkLnmFpKlp+9OsnNfz43v9zzeomzqSdRHpPEZ
> pmFM
> -----END NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----
>
>   
The csr seem to be somehow malformed:

   0  335: SEQUENCE {
   4  185:   SEQUENCE {
   7    1:     INTEGER 0
  10   16:     SEQUENCE {
  12   14:       SET {
  14   12:         SEQUENCE {
  16    3:           OBJECT IDENTIFIER commonName (2 5 4 3)
         :             (X.520 id-at (2 5 4))
  21    5:           PrintableString 'test4'
         :           }
         :         }
         :       }
  28  159:     SEQUENCE {
  31   13:       SEQUENCE {
  33    9:         OBJECT IDENTIFIER rsaEncryption (1 2 840 113549 1 1 1)
         :           (PKCS #1)
  44    0:         NULL
         :         }
  46  141:       BIT STRING, encapsulates {
  50  137:         SEQUENCE {
  53  129:           INTEGER
         :             00 E7 0B FC 54 F4 8D 1F B1 C7 D0 DB 1D AF 6F F7
         :             C6 ED DF AA 09 43 6D 05 33 F0 2C 61 16 F1 47 5E
         :             6D BA 6B 50 E5 C8 2F A5 A6 A6 57 0A 0A 33 27 3A
         :             5B D4 DE 44 5C 34 7F 5A 0D 55 55 B7 09 36 72 B2
         :             BC 93 9A E1 7A 8E AA A0 0F 14 A2 DF 1F 91 A1 02
         :             28 CE 20 84 11 B8 B2 FF 58 79 54 79 8D 8B 50 77
         :             0B 09 9D B9 ED BF 50 10 E4 EB 47 A8 95 64 FA 7B
         :             E2 BD A5 EC 20 64 5D 0D F3 BF 1E 0F 45 F5 F6 79
         :             8F
 185    3:           INTEGER 65537
         :           }
         :         }
         :       }
 190    0:     [0]
*         :       Error: Object has zero length.*

...snip...

> The contents of the certificate database that's used for the CMC agent:
>
> [root at ebbe test]# certutil -L -d /root/test/cmc-agent
>
> Certificate Nickname                                         Trust
> Attributes
>
> SSL,S/MIME,JAR/XPI
>
> CMC Agent - NetherNordic SLCS                                u,u,u
> cmc                                                          u,u,u
> ca                                                           c,c,c
>
>
>
>   




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