digital signature / openssl > open office help

From: kwhiskers (kwhiskers_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/30/05

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    I have been trying to digitally sign an open office writer document (odt).
    When I click on 'digital signature', a window opens up stating that nobody
    has yet signed the document, which is true. When I then click to pick a
    signature with which to sign, none at all are listed in the second window
    that opens and there is no obvious way to import digital signatures and
    certificates.

    I have looked on the open office forum and it was stated that open office
    looks for the signature in the ~/.thunderbird (not installed), then
    ~/.firefox and ~/.mozilla directories. I have installed the required .pkc12
    certificates in those 2 programs. According to the information given, when
    the certificate bundle is installed there, it should now appear in open
    office.

    It doesn't.

    Is there some different place to put the signature or certificate file in
    the Fedora version of open office 2? Must I state this location, perhaps, in
    the paths set-up in open office? What is the path to give and what is it
    called?

    First I tried using my digital signature from gnupg, which is in .asc
    format, but that wouldn't import into mozilla or firefox. Then I tried to
    convert it to pkcs12, but there seems to be no way to do so, so I had to
    create another. I used openssl to create a .pem certificate which I then
    converted into a .pkcs12 certificate bundle, which installed successfully
    into konqueror, firefox and the old mozilla.

    Furthermore, the open office forum suggested one make symbolic links from
    the certificate databases of firefox to mozilla, so as not to have 2
    unsyncronized certificate stores. After not having success with 2
    certificate stores, I deleted one and made the other links.

    Despite having followed all the directions, the available
    signatures/certificates in open office are nil.

    Where do I put signatures/certificates to have them be usable in open office
    2.0? Should they occur somewhere under /etc/pki, perhaps? Where? What form
    must they be? .asc, .pkcs12, .pem... what?

    There seems to be some ambiguity in this, too, in that
    mozilla/firefox/thunderbird want .pkcs12 certificates, which are actually
    used for verifying the validity of web pages, yet the information in the
    open office forum says that it is these directories that are read by open
    office (they sure don't seem to be, unless there is some undocumented secret
    way of activating it).

    However, a pkcs12 file is a certificate, but open office does digital
    signing. A digital signature is what is made with gnupg. Such a digital
    signature is used to sign an email, for example, as in kmail or evolution. A
    signature is not a certificate. I don't want to verify that a web page comes
    from the domain to which is has been registered by a certificate authority
    (CA), but rather, simply want to digitally sign a document, attesting to my
    authorship.

    I now have public & private digital keys, self-signed by me; I have a
    self-signed digital certificate, issued by me... and still I have no
    apparent way to sign a document I have written.

    Does anyone have the answer? 

    


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