Creation of a manual certificate request fails with error message "Expected INF file section name 0xe0000000".

Assume the following scenario:

  • An information file for a manual certificate request is created.
  • Creating the certificate request using the file fails with the following error message:
Expected INF file section name 0xe0000000 (INF: -536870912)

Cause/Solution

The error occurs when the information file is encoded incorrectly. It must be encoded in UTF-8 without byte order mark (BOM). You can check the encoding with tools such as Notepad++.

After changing the encoding, the file must be saved.

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