Ruby OpenSSL nested asn1 error

Question

I have tried the advice on several of the questions posted here, but to no avail. I have the following files: (NOTE, I generated these on the fly and they are throwaway keys

Answer 1

For others who might run into this. I had this error and fixed it by removing all carriage returns from my certificate string. (eg. replace "\r\n" and "\n\r" with just "\n" or just remove all "\r"

Answer 2

So, once again, I answered my own question. I was trying to read a DER-form pkcs12. I had to convert it to PEM format.