How to Use Certificate Server-Generated CA Certificates with Netscape Navigator (230227)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0
This article was previously published under Q230227
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SUMMARY

Certificate Authority (CA) certificates created by Microsoft Certificate Server are not Base64 encoded, which is expected by Netscape Navigator.

MORE INFORMATION

The Bin264 utility is available to perform Base64 encoding of certificates. Please note that this utility is not supported by Microsoft in any way and is provided for testing purposes only.

For more information about the Bin264 utility and Base64 encoding, see the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/security/tech/certificates/formats.asp

The CertUtil utility installs automatically with Certificate Server 2.0 and can also be used to encode certificates to Base64.

Usage: CertUtil [Options] -encode InFile OutFile, where InFile is the binary certificate and OutFile is the resulting Base64 certificate.
Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:6/23/2005
Keywords:kbhowto kbnofix KB230227
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