This is old but...

> Here is an excerpt from the httpd error_log that my server is
> generating. Does anybody have any clues as to what causes this (I'm new to
> SSL and the whole encryption thing in general).

> [Sun Dec 17 10:13:58 2000] [notice] Apache/1.3.14 (Unix)  (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_ssl/2.7.1 OpenSSL/0.9.5a DAV/1.0.2 PHP/4.0.3pl1 mod_perl/1.24 configured -- resuming normal operations
> [Sun Dec 17 10:14:01 2000] [error] mod_ssl: SSL handshake failed (server moe.miah.org:443, client 216.98.203.243) (OpenSSL library error follows)
> [Sun Dec 17 10:14:01 2000] [error] OpenSSL: error:0407106B:rsa routines:RSA_padding_check_PKCS1_type_2:block type is not 02
> [Sun Dec 17 10:14:01 2000] [error] OpenSSL: error:04065072:rsa routines:RSA_EAY_PRIVATE_DECRYPT:padding check failed
> [Sun Dec 17 10:14:01 2000] [error] OpenSSL: error:1408B076:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_CLIENT_KEY_EXCHANGE:bad rsa decrypt
> [Sun Dec 17 10:18:06 2000] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down

Your web server's private key may be corrupt.  Or, the public key
("certificate") may be corrupt.  Or, the private key may be 
encrypted with a password and nobody gave the web server the 
password to unlock the private key.

I suspect you've already solved this problem by now though.

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