Microsoft KB Archive/230227

= How to Use Certificate Server-Generated CA Certificates with Netscape Navigator =

Article ID: 230227

Article Last Modified on 6/23/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0

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This article was previously published under Q230227



We strongly recommend that all users upgrade to Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) version 6.0 running on Microsoft Windows Server 2003. IIS 6.0 significantly increases Web infrastructure security. For more information about IIS security-related topics, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/prodtech/IIS.mspx



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.

Additional query words: root base-64 64-bit akz

Keywords: kbhowto kbnofix KB230227

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