I can not verify the certificate by openssl
openssl verify cert.pem
Gets something like this:
cert.pem: / C = PL / O = DATA
error 20 at 0 depth lookup: unable to get local issuer certificate
The same cert from the machine on Centos - verified correctly.
Debian: squeeze / sid
Is it a problem with the CA ROOT? Update openssl help?
Unlike browsers, which trust nearly everything from anybody, OpenSSL trusts nothing by default.
Its up to you to determine what should be trusted. You will have to specify something when using OpenSSL. It may be a cert or list of certs to trust.
The directory /etc/ssl/certs contains many certs. Using such directory should allow to verify almost anything:
openssl verify -CApath /etc/ssl/certs cert.pem
It is recommended that you reduce the number of trusted certs to one, two or the minimum possible.
You need to specify the CA cert in order to verify the issued cert since it's obviously not included in the pem (though this would be possible):
openssl verify -CAfile your_ca_cert_file cert.pem
If you do not get the error on centOS then there's the CA cert around and openssl can use it to successfully verify cert.pem
You need to make your CA trusted on the server. For example, if your cert is from goadday, run the following commands.
cd /tmp
sudo wget -O gd_intermediate.crt https://certs.godaddy.com/repository/gd_intermediate.crt
sudo cp /tmp/gd_intermediate.crt /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/gd_intermediate.crt
sudo update-ca-certificates
After running these commands, your certificate should be verified.
openssl verify cert.pem
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I am generating a self signed certificate using openssl in Ubuntu. I want to use it for localhost rest server. But while verification, I am getting error : x509: certificate signed by unknown authority, can anyone please tell me how I can resolve this error?
Thanks!
Place your root certificate and intermediate (if you have one) in /usr/share/local/ca-certificates with the .crt extension.
Run:
sudo update-ca-certificates
Updating certificates in /etc/ssl/certs...
1 added, 0 removed; done.
Running hooks in /etc/ca-certificates/update.d...
done.
In this case, curl is your friend:
curl -Iv https://localhost/path/to/api
Also you can run openssl s_client
openssl s_client localhost:443
Additionally, you can interrogate your certificate by providing your certificate:
openssl s_client -connect localhost:443 -CAfile /path/to/your/cert.pem
If you certificate does not match, you know. Possibly you are using the wrong certificate for your REST API or the certificate is not being installed, which you can verify by looking in /etc/ssl/certs directory on your system (if you are running Linux)
Place your .crt certificate to /usr/share/ca-certificates
Edit /etc/ca-certificates.conf and add your certificate name there.
(Look at update-ca-certificates man page for more information.)
Then run sudo update-ca-certificates
Works for me in Ubuntu 22
I am working with a certificate chain with 3 certificates :
ca.crt : Root CA certificate
intermediate.crt : intermediate CA certificate (signed by ca.crt)
cert.crt : the final certificate
I first try to verify with:
openssl verify -CAfile ca.crt -untrusted intermediate.crt cert.crt
I get as result cert.crt: OK
So it's all fine.
But if I create a certificate chain with cat cert.crt intermediate.crt > cert.chain
And then I verify with openssl verify -CAfile ca.crt cert.chain
The result is error 20 at 0 depth lookup:unable to get local issuer certificate
And the cert.chain file is also rejected by a server for the exact same reason.
I don't understand where is the problem.
I first try to verify with: openssl verify -CAfile ca.crt -untrusted intermediate.crt cert.crt
This will take the first certificate out of cert.crt and try to build the trust chain using the given untrusted CA certificates in intermediate.crt up to some root CA certificate in ca.crt.
And then I verify with openssl verify -CAfile ca.crt cert.chain
This will also take the first certificate out of cert.chain. It will ignore remaining certificates in this file. It will then try to build the trust chain to some root CA certificate in ca.crt without using any intermediate CA certificates since none are given. It will thus fail.
And the cert.chain file is also rejected by a server for the exact same reason.
It is unknown what exactly happens here. If it is "rejected by a server" then you likely talk about validating a client certificate by the server. It might simply be that the client application does not send the whole chain to the server but only the first certificate from the file. None is known about this client application though, so this is only speculation.
Thanks to all. Yes, the correct way to verify a chain is with using the "untrusted" parameter of openssl verify to specify the intermediate certificate.
The connection to server was tried with openssl s_client and specifying the certificate chain in the "cert" parameter but it fails. Using a recent openssl version (1.1.0 or newer), it is now possible to add the "cert_chain" parameter to specify the intermediate certificate to use.
Hello you error just related in the fact that you chain is not build correctly.
Normally your verify with untrusted shall not work, that why you're confusing.The correct sequence is below. I invite you to regenerate and recreate your chain.
openssl verify -CAfile ca.crt -untrusted cert.crt intermediate
This will start at the end, (Root > intermediate > cert)
So that, your chain shall be build as following :
cat intermediate.crt cert.crt > chain.crt
Then it shall work.
I am running Windows Vista and am attempting to connect via https to upload a file in a multi part form but I am having some trouble with the local issuer certificate. I am just trying to figure out why this isnt working now, and go back to my cURL code later after this is worked out. Im running the command:
openssl s_client -connect connect_to_site.com:443
It gives me an digital certificate from VeriSign, Inc., but also shoots out an error:
Verify return code: 20 (unable to get local issuer certificate)
What is the local issuer certificate? Is that a certificate from my own computer? Is there a way around this? I have tried using -CAfile mozilla.pem file but still gives me same error.
I had the same problem and solved it by passing path to a directory where CA keys are stored. On Ubuntu it was:
openssl s_client -CApath /etc/ssl/certs/ -connect address.com:443
Solution:
You must explicitly add the parameter -CAfile your-ca-file.pem.
Note: I tried also param -CApath mentioned in another answers, but is does not works for me.
Explanation:
Error unable to get local issuer certificate means, that the openssl does not know your root CA cert.
Note: If you have web server with more domains, do not forget to add also -servername your.domain.net parameter. This parameter will "Set TLS extension servername in ClientHello". Without this parameter, the response will always contain the default SSL cert (not certificate, that match to your domain).
This error also happens if you're using a self-signed certificate with a keyUsage missing the value keyCertSign.
Is your server configured for client authentication? If so you need to pass the client certificate while connecting with the server.
I had the same problem on OSX OpenSSL 1.0.1i from Macports, and also had to specify CApath as a workaround (and as mentioned in the Ubuntu bug report, even an invalid CApath will make openssl look in the default directory).
Interestingly, connecting to the same server using PHP's openssl functions (as used in PHPMailer 5) worked fine.
put your CA & root certificate in /usr/share/ca-certificate or /usr/local/share/ca-certificate.
Then
dpkg-reconfigure ca-certificates
or even reinstall ca-certificate package with apt-get.
After doing this your certificate is collected into system's DB:
/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
Then everything should be fine.
With client authentication:
openssl s_client -cert ./client-cert.pem -key ./client-key.key -CApath /etc/ssl/certs/ -connect foo.example.com:443
Create the certificate chain file with the intermediate and root ca.
cat intermediate/certs/intermediate.cert.pem certs/ca.cert.pem > intermediate/certs/ca-chain.cert.pem
chmod 444 intermediate/certs/ca-chain.cert.pem
Then verfify
openssl verify -CAfile intermediate/certs/ca-chain.cert.pem \
intermediate/certs/www.example.com.cert.pem
www.example.com.cert.pem: OK
Deploy the certific
I faced the same issue,
It got fixed after keeping issuer subject value in the certificate as it is as subject of issuer certificate.
so please check "issuer subject value in the certificate(cert.pem) == subject of issuer (CA.pem)"
openssl verify -CAfile CA.pem cert.pem
cert.pem: OK
I got this problem when my NGINX server did not have a complete certificate chain in the certificate file it was configured with.
My solution was to find a similar server and extract the certificates from that server with something like:
openssl s_client -showcerts -CAfile my_local_issuer_CA.cer -connect my.example.com:443 > output.txt
Then I added the ASCII armoured certificates from that 'output.txt' file (except the machine-certificate) to a copy of my machines certificate-file and pointed NGINX at that copied file instead and the error went away.
this error messages means that
CABundle is not given by (-CAfile ...)
OR
the CABundle file is not closed by a self-signed root certificate.
Don't worry. The connection to server will work even
you get theis message from openssl s_client ...
(assumed you dont take other mistake too)
I would update #user1462586 answer by doing the following:
I think it is more suitable to use update-ca-certificates command, included in the ca-certificates package than dpkg-reconfigure.
So basically, I would change its useful answer to this:
Retrieve the certificate (from this stackoverflow answer and write it in the right directory:
# let's say we call it my-own-cert.crt
openssl s_client -CApath /etc/ssl/certs/ -connect <hostname.domain.tld>:<port> 2>/dev/null </dev/null | sed -ne '/-BEGIN CERTIFICATE-/,/-END CERTIFICATE-/p' > /usr/share/ca-certificates/my-own-cert.crt
Repeat the operation if you need other certificates.
For example, if you need CA certs for ldaps/starttls with Active Directory, see here for how to process this + use openssl to convert it in pem/crt:
openssl x509 -inform der -in LdapSecure.cer -out my-own-ca.pem
#and copy it in the right directory...
cp my-own-ca.pem /usr/share/ca-certificates/my-own-ca.crt
Add this certificates to the /etc/ca-certificates.conf configuration file:
echo "my-own-cert.crt" >> /etc/ca-certificates.conf
echo "my-own-ca.crt" >> /etc/ca-certificates.conf
Update /etc/ssl/certs directory:
update-ca-certificate
Enjoy
Note that if you use private domain name machines, instead of legitimate public domain names, you may need to edit your /etc/hosts file to be able to have the corresponding FQDN.
This is due to SNI Certificate binding issue on the Vserver or server itself
I'm trying to get HTTPS work on all subdomains using"Nginx", but receive:
This server could not prove that it is api.wokcraft.com; its security certificate is not trusted by your computer's operating system. This may be caused by a misconfiguration or an attacker intercepting your connection.
URL: https://api.wokcraft.com/
Can any one inform what missing?
thx
edit: I followed this instructions: https://support.comodo.com/index.php?/Default/Knowledgebase/Article/View/1091/0/certificate-installation--nginx
Nginx doesn't send the correct list of intermediate certificates: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=api.wokcraft.com&latest
Create the correct bundle:
You want to create Comodo Bundle this way (replacing your_cert with actual name of your file):
cat your_cert.crt COMODORSADomainValidationSecureServerCA.crt COMODORSAAddTrustCA.crt AddTrustExternalCARoot.crt > your_cert.ca-bundle
Get the new ca-bundle onto your server
Once that is done copy this to your server as in the Nginx set it this way:
ssl_certificate /your/ssl/path/your_cert.ca-bundle;
ssl_certificate_key /your/ssl/path/your_cert_privateKey.key;
Verify the cert and key are matching after they have been copied (compare md5 hashes).
openssl x509 -noout -modulus -in certificate.crt | openssl md5
openssl rsa -noout -modulus -in privateKey.key | openssl md5
Test the config (need to run as sudo):
sudo nginx -t
If no errors, reload nginx and re-run you SSLlabs check:
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=api.wokcraft.com
I recently deployed a Dart server application that serves HTTP requests. I wanted to add support for HTTPS so I have been trying to add SSL to the Dart server application.
This answer gives a clear explanation of how to add a self-signing SSL certificate to Dart. However, I want to add an SSL certificate I bought from an SSL provider.
The SSL provider e-mailed my 4 files:
Root CA Certificate - AddTrustExternalCARoot.crt
Intermediate CA Certificate - COMODORSAAddTrustCA.crt
Intermediate CA Certificate - COMODORSADomainValidationSecureServerCA.crt
Your PositiveSSL Certificate - my_domain.crt
I have been trying to figure out how certutil works and how to add these certificates to the certificate database, but I just can't figure it all out.
Anyone with experience enabling a CA SSL certificate in Dart?
SOLVED: Thanks to suggestion in the comments, I solved the issue. This is the gist of my complete setup: https://gist.github.com/stevenroose/e6abde14258971eae982
First of all, you probably have three files generated with openssl for your private key, server certificate and CA certificate. To convert all those into a PKCS12 file, you can use openssl:
openssl pkcs12 -export -out server.p12 -inkey server.key -in server.crt -certfile CAcert.crt
Then, you can adapt the certutil commands as shown to load you PKCS12 instead of generating new certificates:
certutil -N -d sql:certdb
certutil -A -n mycertnick -i server.crt -t "TCu,Cu,Tuw" -d sql:certdb
certutil -A -n myCA -i CAcert.crt -t "TCu,Cu,Tuw" -d sql:certdb
pk12util -i server.p12 -d sql:certdb
It seems to work with the sample code in the referenced question.
Unfortunately the SSL management in Dart is known to be very lacking.
I reported this many times, with no serious answer from the Dart team.
Star this issue if you want something done about it:
https://code.google.com/p/dart/issues/detail?id=20967