certificate import issue

RouterOS General
1

Hello,
I am experiencing a problem when trying to import a CA SSL certificate into a Routerboard hEX router running the latest firmware. When running the /certificate import command, I get the following response:
[admin@rtr] >> /certificate import file-name=ca.crt
passphrase: ******************
certificates-imported: 0
private-keys-imported: 0
files-imported: 0
decryption-failures: 0
keys-with-no-certificate: 0
What is particularly weird is that I am trying to import a copy of the same certificate I had already imported on another similar Hex router without any issues of the sort, just about six months ago.

I have already read previous threads on the matter, but none seem to match my problem. Please, could someone point me to possible causes, or tell me how I could obtain more detailed output to troubleshoot this situation?

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It may possibly be in wrong format, depends on what exactly you mean by that “same certificate” already imported to other RB. If it’s the exact same file, then it’s not the case. But if it’s the same certificate, but perhaps from different source, the format might be different. I’m not sure about all formats supported by RouterOS, PEM works for sure (it’s sort of readable as text file, no binary mess, starts with -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----).

3

Thank you for answering, Sob.

As it turns out, the real issue was I didn’t know how to properly use my ftp client, and was only creating zero-sized files with the correct name on my router. D’oh.