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Subject:    Re: Api * just lists itself.
From:       Terri Ferrari <tferrari () METAL-TIGER ! COM>
Date:       1998-02-28 14:56:16
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I finally got through and tested the downloads from each of the locations and
they were all from the November 1996 Distribution...
Terri
-=jack=- wrote:

> > You might want to download the sdk again, I just got it the other
> > day and I believe I did see the dll you mentioned in the stuff I
> > installed.  1/xx/97 is some time ago, so it may just be an older
> > copy of the sdk in which things were different.  I do know that
> > some of the routines are different between versions, as there used
> > to be a routine called DumpCert or something similar, which I think
> > has been replaced by CertMgr [I may be off on the names, I'm just
> > picking this up now...].
> --------------------------------
> When I try to download the ActiveX SDK from
> http://www.microsoft.com/sbnmember/download/sbnaxsdk/sbnaxsdkch.htm
> I get the following error:
> Server object error 'ASP 0177 : 800401f3'
> Server.CreateObject Failed
> /msdownload/sbndownload/sbnaxsdk/accore-d.asp, line 3
> Invalid class string
> ==================================
>
> I'm having the same problem.  I keep seeing this error from
> the MS www site, or I get a 'server too busy' error.  I eventually
> got through, by simply trying repeatedly and quitting the browser
> [MSIE4.01] several times... however once I did get the download,
> I found *another* problem!  So... check this out:
>
> I have downloaded/installed the active x sdk from the MS www site,
> *and also* have installed it from the 1998 MSDN CD's, which have
> docs on the new version of the sdk.  Unfortunately the new version of
> the *software* ISN'T THERE?!?!?!?  It appears these CD's have the
> docs for the new version of the sdk [i.e. the version having CertMgr
> instead of DumpCert], but do NOT contain the software itself.  Ditto
> for the web site.
>
> Does anyone know if the CertMgr-having version of the active x
> sdk even exists, or if so, *where* it exists?  I don't belive I
> can do what I want to do without newer programs, but I can't
> find the damn thing anywhere.  *What* I *do* want to do is to use
> my certs from the NS cert svr to sign code using authenticode, but
> while I have managed to get both my CA root cert *and* a client
> cert into MSIE [which really means into the registry], I still don't
> have access to a file containing either the cert *or* my private key,
> both of which are enmeshed in the registry [or *somewhere*].  Using
> the new version of the active x sdk I could use the routines to use
> certs and keys in the registry, but the old version doesn't support
> this.  Does anyone know a way around this problem?  Is it possible
> that MS has made it impossible to use [their competitor] Netscape's
> cert server certs with authenticode?  Has *anyone* been able to do this
> successfully?  Thanks, in advance, and from the bottom of my *greasy
> little heart*!
>
> -=j=-
>
> PS: I'm going to ask about this in a couple of other 'forums', and will
> distribute any asnwers I get back here as well as in the other forums.
> I'm going to send this to the authenticode list, & cert-talk, any other
> suggestions?  I've heard of a www site called devoto.com, any opinions on
> this?  TIA...
>
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