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Oracle® Application Server Release Notes
10g (9.0.4) for Solaris Operating System (SPARC)
Part No. B10629-15
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27 Oracle Application Server Certificate Authority

This chapter describes issues with Oracle Application Server Certificate Authority (OracleAS Certificate Authority, OCA). It includes the following topics:

27.1 Configuration Issues and Workarounds

This section describes configuration issues and their workarounds for OracleAS Certificate Authority. It includes the following topic:

27.1.1 Do Not Enroll an OCA Web Administrative Certificate with a DC Value

On zh, zh_CN.GBK, zh_TW.BIG5, and ko Solaris locales, you cannot enroll an OCA Web Administrative certificate with a DC value. To enroll a Web Administrative certificate with DC value, click Advanced DN on the OCA Administrative Web page and then enter a DN with a valid DC value. For example, cn=sgtcnsun03WCN, ou=SGT, o=Oracle, c=CN, dc=oracle.

27.1.2 Error Message Using Netscape Browser

Using Netscape 4.7x browsers with OCA, you can in some circumstances receive the following message:

"The Security library has encountered an improperly formated DER-encoded message".

This message indicates that when the OCA certificate was issued, the DN for the certificate included non-printable or other special characters, causing the issuer to use a special set of characters that Netscape cannot handle.

To correct this problem, re-issue the server certificate using only allowed printable characters in the DN. The following characters are allowed for the OCA certificate DN:

  • lowercase and uppercase letters including the space character

  • the numbers 0 through 9

  • the characters + ' , - . / : = ? (does not include the underscore character)