Question

I have a .pem cert that I’m reasonably sure I generated correctly, and it is not being accepted by OpenSSL when I paste it into a Rails 3.0.2 model. What I do is this:

open up the .pem file in Textmate
select all and copy
user.cert = <paste into model>; user.save
OpenSSL::PKey::RSA.new(user.cert)

This gives me the error:

Neither PUB key nor PRIV key:: 

To test, I just loaded in the file instead, no errors:

OpenSSL::PKey::RSA.new(File.read("/path/to/cert.pem"))

I thought maybe it would be some encoding error or newline issue, I had tried gsub’ing out the newlines to no avail.

Answer 1

It was a weird copy and paste artifact indeed. I File.read’d it into the model instead of copy paste and it worked fine…