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Dovecot and ssl

Networksolutions certs: After creating myserver.key and myserver.csr and obtaining certs: (don't forget to insert newlines between the blocks!)

cat OV_NetworkSolutionsOVServerCA2.crt OV_USERTrustRSACertificationAuthority.crt AddTrustExternalCARoot.crt > intermediate.pem

In dovecot.conf:

ssl_cert_file = /usr/local/etc/IMAP.EXAMPLE.COM.crt
ssl_key_file = /usr/local/etc/myserver.key
#optional, only if you want to require client to provide cert
#ssl_ca_file = /usr/local/etc/intermediate.pem

Courier-imap and ssl

Networksolutions certs: After creating myserver.key and myserver.csr and obtaining certs: (don't forget to insert newlines between the blocks!)

cat AddTrustExternalCARoot.crt NetworkSolutions_CA.crt > intermediate.pem
cat myserver.key >> IMAP.EXAMPLE.COM.crt

In imapd-ssl:

TLS_CERTFILE=/usr/local/etc/courier-certs/IMAP.EXAMPLE.COM.crt
TLS_TRUSTCERTS=/usr/local/etc/courier-certs/intermediate.pem

Network Solutions certificates bundle

See http://blog.irontechsolutions.com/2008/12/10/ssl-chained-certificates-explained/

cat OV_NetworkSolutionsOVServerCA2.crt OV_USERTrustRSACertificationAuthority.crt AddTrustExternalCARoot.crt > intermediate.txt

Comodo bundle order

COMODORSAOrganizationValidationSecureServerCA. + COMODO rsa add trust ca ( + addtrustexternalcaroot )

Generate a signing request

openssl req -nodes -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout my.domain.key -out my.domain.csr

The resulting csr is the signing request, my.domain.key is the private key you save not readable for anyone but root!

Tips&Tricks

Create private key (using config file)

openssl req (-config /etc/pki/tls/www.example.com.cnf) -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout domain.key

Create CSR using config file

openssl req -config /etc/pki/tls/www.example.com.cnf -new -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout example.com.key -out www.example.com.csr

Convert der to pem

openssl x509 -inform der -in certificate.cer -out certificate.pem

openssl verify cert.pem

openssl x509 -in cacert.pem -noout -text
openssl x509 -in foo.pem  -inform pem -noout -text

openssl rsa -noout -text -in server.key
openssl req -noout -text -in server.csr
openssl rsa -noout -text -in ca.key
openssl x509 -noout -text -in ca.crt

with expiration date:

openssl x509 -noout -text -enddate -in ca.crt

to check CN

openssl x509 -in server.crt -noout -subject

openssl pkcs12 -info -in keyStore.p12
openssl pkcs12 -info -in keyStore.pfx

Checking a service

Note -CApath should point to your local collection of public CA certs

openssl s_client -connect -CApath /etc/ssl/certs host:pop3 -starttls pop3
openssl s_client -port 443 -CApath /etc/ssl/certs -host webmail.example.com -prexit
openssl s_client -connect imap.example.com:143 -starttls imap
openssl s_client -connect web.server:443 -showcerts
openssl s_client -connect webmail.example.com:443 -servername vhost.example.com

Just check expiration date:

 openssl s_client -connect imap.example.com:143 -starttls imap 2>/dev/null | openssl x509 -noout -dates

Check your site

gnutls-cli

echo quit | gnutls-cli --starttls-proto smtp --port 25 servac.skk | grep Status
echo quit | gnutls-cli --port 465 servac.skk | grep Status

check if certs match

TODO: -clr_check too

openssl pkey -in privateKey.key -pubout -outform pem | sha256sum 
openssl x509 -in certificate.crt -pubkey -noout -outform pem | sha256sum 
openssl req -in CSR.csr -pubkey -noout -outform pem | sha256sum

These values show match Also:

openssl verify -CAfile ca-bundle foo_bar.crt

A script to do these checks: [sslcheck]

Creating your own CA and signing with it

(based on http://www.eclectica.ca/howto/ssl-cert-howto.php#rootc)

cd /etc/ssl
mkdir newcerts
(perform secret rituals)

FAQ

using s_client

no client certificate sent

try adding -cert

Can't use SSL_get_servername

Try using hostname instead of IP address

write:errno=104

server reset the connection

unable to load client certificate private key file

Verification error: unable to verify the first certificate

problem missing CA cert

error 20 at 0 depth lookup: unable to get local issuer certificate

you probably need to provide the right -CAfile maybe self signed?

Verify return code: 21 (unable to verify the first certificate)

Probably requires bundle

Bad certificate (code 42)

Means the server demands you authenticate with a certificate, and you did not do so, and that caused the handshake failure.

check certificate chain

openssl s_client -connect www.example.com:443 -showcerts

check expiration date

echo | openssl s_client -servername NAME -connect HOST:PORT 2>/dev/null | openssl x509 -noout -dates

139814102202256:error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line:pem_lib.c:707:Expecting: TRUSTED CERTIFICATE

i've seen this happen when someone deleted the BEGIN/END CERTIFICATE lines

or a file is in DER format

SSL CTX certificate file error: error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line

??

check if webserver supports old tls

openssl s_client -connect www.example.com:443 -tls1
openssl s_client -connect www.example.com:443 -tls1_1

or when vhost:

 openssl s_client -servername vhost.example.com -connect www.example.com:443 -tls1_1

ERROR: Certificate verification: Not trusted

seems to be an lftp issue

unsupported certificate purpose

??

ssllabs checks

Chain issues Contains anchor

TODO

check smtp submission

openssl s_client -connect mail.host.com:587 -starttls smtp -tls1_

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