Bug ID 740746: RSA key creation fails for generating key/csr pair when using gen-csr challenge-password

Last Modified: Jul 12, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP LTM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
14.0.0, 14.0.0.1, 14.0.0.2, 14.0.0.3, 14.0.0.4, 14.0.0.5, 14.0.1, 14.0.1.1

Fixed In:
14.1.0

Opened: Aug 16, 2018

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

Failed to generate RSA key in pair with CSR via TMSH command when using key password options. Response from create sys crypto key command when using challenge-password option: Syntax Error: Key creation doesn't support challenge-password option. Response from create sys crypto key command when using prompt-for-password option: Syntax Error: Key creation doesn't support prompt-for-password option.

Impact

Cannot generate password-protected RSA key via tmsh command.

Conditions

This issue happens while using either of the key password protect options while generating CSR and RSA key via tmsh command: create sys crypto key.

Workaround

There is no workaround.

Fix Information

The system now support the creation of CSR and RSA key when using password options via tmsh command.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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