Openssl certificate request failed

Question

I want to create certificate request with openssl. I am required to have use 'E' for the email field name in the subject. So I have tried the following command:

openssl req -new -key privkey.pem -subj "/[email protected]" -out request.pem

In response I get:

Subject Attribute E has no known NID, skipped

What does exactly as it sayis. If I add more arguments to subject they are added, but email is skipped.

I have tried google and this same error message comes up several times, but I failed to find solution.

I have tried openssl 0.9.8o and 1.0.1c.

Solution

The short name you're looking for is "emailAddress", rather than "E". This works:

openssl req -new -key privkey.pem -subj "/[email protected]" -out request.pem

Comments

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