Background: I create a self-made certificate and use the private key to sign some text.And then, use the self made certificate verify the signature.But I cannot verify successful.Here is my process.
# create Rsa public/private key
openssl genrsa -out private.key 2048
# generate the certificate
openssl req -x509 -days 3650 -key private.key -out ca.csr
# generate text message
echo 'hello' > text
# sign text
openssl smime -sign -inkey private.key -signer ca.csr -in text -outform PEM -out signature
# verify signature
openssl smime -verify -noverify -content text -certfile ca.csr -inform PEM -in signature -signer ca.csr
hello
Verification failure
139927005472576:error:21071065:PKCS7 routines:PKCS7_signatureVerify:digest failure:crypto/pkcs7/pk7_doit.c:1011:
139927005472576:error:21075069:PKCS7 routines:PKCS7_verify:signature failure:crypto/pkcs7/pk7_smime.c:353:
what's wrong with my verification process.
In addition, if verify without -noverify option, which is in line with expectations
# verify signature
openssl smime -verify -content text -certfile ca.csr -inform PEM -in signature -signer ca.csr
Verification failure
139636965443472:error:21075075:PKCS7 routines:PKCS7_verify:certificate verify error:pk7_smime.c:336:Verify error:self signed certificate
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I'm looking to create an example of creating a document, digitally signing it, and verifying it. All works fine until I try and verify the signature, all I get is unable to load key file
Create a document, which needs an agreement (signature):
echo I, Bob, promise to pay Mark £1000 by 1/1/2020 > contract.txt
Generate a private key:
openssl genpkey -algorithm RSA -out private_key.pem -pkeyopt rsa_keygen_bits:2048
Generate the public key from the private key:
openssl rsa -in private_key.pem -RSAPublicKey_out -out public_key.pem
Digitally sign the document:
openssl dgst -sha256 -hex -sign private_key.pem -out signature.sign contract.txt
Then if we view the contents of signature.sign:
RSA-SHA256(contract.txt)= 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
To verify the signature:
openssl dgst -sha256 -hex -verify public_key.pem -signature signature.sign contract.txt
Full script:
echo I, Bob, promise to pay Mark £1000 by 1/1/2020 > contract.txt
openssl genpkey -algorithm RSA -out private_key.pem -pkeyopt rsa_keygen_bits:2048
openssl rsa -in private_key.pem -RSAPublicKey_out -out public_key.pem
openssl dgst -sha256 -sign private_key.pem -out signature contract.txt
openssl dgst -sha256 -verify public_key.pem -signature signature contract.txt
Thank you!
I am using openssl smime to sign and verify data.
To sign text file using openssl I sue the following command:
openssl smime -sign -in sample.txt -out mail.msg -signer cert.pem -inkey key.pem
Then I proceed to verification:
openssl smime -verify -in mail.msg -CAfile allCA.pem
The verification succeed.
My problem is that I have an external tool that performs the verification using the following command:
openssl smime -verify -in mail.msg -inform DER -CAfile allCA.pem
How to sign my txt file so it can be verified with the previous command ?
What I've tried so far:
openssl smime -sign -in sample.txt -out mail.msg -outform DER -signer cert.pem -inkey key.pem
But I get an error when trying to verify my mail:
Verification failure
140204331579208:error:2107507A:PKCS7 routines:PKCS7_verify:no content:pk7_smime.c:291:
The way you call sign operation creates detached signature so you would need to pass -content sample.txt to verify command. However, it is possible to create structure that encapsulates message together with signature (-nodetach parameter).
This is the sign command you are looking for:
openssl smime -sign -in data.dat -out mail.msg -signer cert.pem -inkey key.pem -outform DER -nodetach
I issued the following commands to create a signature for a file (linux kernel) :
openssl req -newkey rsa -keyout codesign.key -out codesign.req
openssl ca -config ca.cnf -extensions codesigning -in codesign.req -out codesign.crt
openssl cms -sign -binary -noattr -in vmlinuz -signer codesign.crt -inkey codesign.key -certfile ca.crt -outform DER -out vmlinuz.sig
The ca.cnf file is for my own private CA infrastructure and it has digitalSignature key usage extension and the codeSigning extended key usage extension enalbed.
How can i verify that the vmlinuz.sig is the signature of the vmlinuz ??
I do have private key(my_ca.key) and public key(my_cert.crt) which is signed by DigiCert. Now I want to create RA(Registration Authority) and sign it by my private key . Here is the way I tried to do that. But when I try to export private and public key as pkcs12 file I have been getting error like this unable to get local issuer certificate getting chain. No idea how to solve this. Here my_cert.crt is extended from DigiCert High Assurance CA-3 and that one extended from DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA
SSL_SUBJ="/C=LK/ST=Colombo/L=Colombo/O=Nope/OU=mobile/CN=My root"
openssl genrsa -out ra.key 4096
openssl req -new -key ra.key -out ra.csr -subj "$SSL_SUBJ"
openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in ra.csr -CA my_cert.pem -CAkey my_ca.pem - set_serial 76964474 -out ra.crt
openssl rsa -in ra.key -text > ra_private.pem
openssl x509 -in ra.crt -out ra_cert.pem
openssl pkcs12 -export -out ca.p12 -inkey my_ca.pem -in my_cert.pem -name "cacert" -passout pass:password
openssl pkcs12 -export -out ra.p12 -inkey ra_private.pem -in ra_cert.pem - chain -CAfile my_cert.pem -name "racert" -passout pass:password
You usually can't use a certificate issued by a public CA to sign anything but client or server traffic; you won't be able to use it for your RA.
The error message indicates that there is a problem with the intermediate certificates. Make sure that you add both of Digicert's certificates to the my_cert.pem file before exporting it to pkcs12
Is there a way to digitally sign a x509 certificate or any document using openssl?
To Generate Private Key
openssl genrsa -out privatekey.pem 2048
To Sign
openssl dgst -sha256 -sign privatekey.pem -out data.txt.signature data.txt
To Generate The Public Key
dgst -verify requires the public key
openssl rsa -in privatekey.pem -outform PEM -pubout -out publickey.pem
To Verify
openssl dgst -sha256 -verify publickey.pem -signature data.txt.signature data.txt
In case of success: prints "Verified OK", return code 0
In case of failure: prints "Verification Failure", return code 1
Yes, the dgst and rsautl component of OpenSSL can be used to compute a signature given an RSA key pair.
Signing:
openssl dgst -sha256 data.txt > hash
openssl rsautl -sign -inkey privatekey.pem -keyform PEM -in hash >signature
Verifying just the signature:
openssl rsautl -verify -inkey publickey.pem -pubin -keyform PEM -in signature
Update: Capturing Reto's comments from below because this is an important nuance. Presumably if you are going to the trouble to verify, you want to know the signature was produced on the plaintext to which it is attached:
This might sound obvious for some but: Be aware, rsautl verify just decrypts the file signature. The output of this call is guaranteed to be produced by the owner of the private key, but beside that nothing else is being checked. So to actually verify the consistency of data.txt you have to regenerate the digest and then compare it against the output of openssl rsautl -verify.
Verifying that the owner of the private key does vouch for data.txt:
openssl dgst -sha256 -verify publickey.pem -signature signature data.txt
For this operation, openssl requires the public key, the signature, and the message.
To digitally sign document in openssl it will work
For this first your certificate should be trusted
it would be look like this
-----BEGIN TRUSTED CERTIFICATE-----
MIIDbjCCAlYCCQCOyunl25ProDANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQUFADB5MQswCQYDVQQGEwJJ
...
-----END TRUSTED CERTIFICATE-----
Then use following command
smime -sign -signer certificate.pem -inkey private.key -in test.txt \
-out test1.txt -from ashish -to singhal