SSL Cheat Sheet
WCF
Using httptools
Add a Certificate for WCF using httptools
- Get the MS Support Tools (httpcfg.exe)
- Add the certificate by adding a website in IIS
- Get the SSL thumbprint by looking into the certificate property
- Get the SSL Hash by:
httpcfg query ssl
- Add the WCF certificate:
ATTENTION If your Hash has spaces then fill them with 0
INFORMATION The application ID is also known as GUID. The Hash is also known as Thumbprint
httpcfg set ssl -i 0.0.0.0:7712 -c MY -g {4dc3e181-e14b-4a21-b022-59fc669b0914} -h fd9327cd63cb13ef837d4ce67f834b1337b0ecb9
Using netsh
netsh http add sslcert ipport=0.0.0.0:7718 appid="{4dc3e181-e14b-4a21-b022-59fc669b0914}" certhash=76ac8611e0fe7f5ca28dc4aaa25ddc673b742973
netsh http show sslcert
OpenSSL
Create a Private Key
The openssl toolkit is used to generate an RSA Private Key and CSR (Certificate Signing Request).
It can also be used to generate self-signed certificates which can be used for testing purposes
or internal usage.
The first step is to create your RSA Private Key. This key is a 1024 bit RSA key which is encrypted using Triple-DES and stored in a PEM format so that it is readable as ASCII text.
openssl genrsa -des3 -out icinga.server.com.key 1024
Generating RSA private key, 1024 bit long modulus .........................................................++++++ ........++++++ e is 65537 (0x10001) Enter PEM pass phrase: Verifying password - Enter PEM pass phrase:
Create a CSR (Certificate Signing Request)
Once the private key is generated a Certificate Signing Request can be generated. The CSR is then used in one of two ways. Ideally, the CSR will be sent to a Certificate Authority, such as Thawte or Verisign who will verify the identity of the requestor and issue a signed certificate. The second option is to self-sign the CSR, which will be demonstrated in the next section.
During the generation of the CSR, you will be prompted for several pieces of information. These are the X.509 attributes of the certificate. One of the prompts will be for "Common Name (e.g., YOUR name)". It is important that this field be filled in with the fully qualified domain name of the server to be protected by SSL. If the website to be protected will be https://icinga.server.com, then enter icinga.server.com at this prompt. The command to generate the CSR is as follows:
openssl req -new -key icinga.server.com.key -out icinga.server.com.csr
Country Name (2 letter code) [GB]:DE State or Province Name (full name) [Berkshire]:Frankfurt am Main Locality Name (eg, city) [Newbury]:Frankfurt am Main Organization Name (eg, company) [My Company Ltd]:SomeCorp Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:MIS Common Name (eg, your name or your server's hostname) []:icinga.server.com Email Address []:mis@server.com Please enter the following 'extra' attributes to be sent with your certificate request A challenge password []: An optional company name []:
Remove Passphrase from Key
One unfortunate side-effect of the pass-phrased private key is that Apache will ask for the pass-phrase each time the web server is started. Obviously this is not necessarily convenient as someone will not always be around to type in the pass-phrase, such as after a reboot or crash. mod_ssl includes the ability to use an external program in place of the built-in pass-phrase dialog, however, this is not necessarily the most secure option either. It is possible to remove the Triple-DES encryption from the key, thereby no longer needing to type in a pass-phrase. If the private key is no longer encrypted, it is critical that this file only be readable by the root user! If your system is ever compromised and a third party obtains your unencrypted private key, the corresponding certificate will need to be revoked. With that being said, use the following command to remove the pass-phrase from the key:
cp icinga.server.com.key icinga.server.com.key.org openssl rsa -in icinga.server.com.key.org -out icinga.server.com.key
The newly created icinga.server.com.key file has no more passphrase in it.
Create a Self-Signed Certificate
At this point you will need to generate a self-signed certificate because you either don't
plan on having your certificate signed by a CA, or you wish to test your new SSL implementation
while the CA is signing your certificate. This temporary certificate will generate an error in the
client browser to the effect that the signing certificate authority is unknown and not trusted.
To generate a temporary certificate which is good for 3650 days, issue the following command:
openssl x509 -req -days 3650 -in icinga.server.com.csr -signkey icinga.server.com.key -out icinga.server.com.crt Signature ok subject=/C=DE.... Technology/CN=... Getting Private key
Alternative way without specifying a domain name
openssl req -x509 -days 3000 -nodes -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout /etc/nginx/ssl/self.key -out /etc/nginx/ssl/self.crt
Installing the Private Key and Certificate
When Apache with mod_ssl is installed, it creates several directories in the Apache config directory. The location of this directory will differ depending on how Apache was compiled.
cp icinga.server.com.crt /etc.apache/ssl cp icinga.server.com.key /etc.apache/ssl
Export private key and certificate from PFX
- Export private key
openssl pkcs12 -in flightapi-test.server.com.pfx -nocerts -out flightapi-test.server.com.key
- Remove password
cp flightapi-test.server.com.key flightapi-test.server.com.key.org openssl rsa -in flightapi-test.server.com.key.org -out flightapi-test.server.com.key
- Export certificate
openssl pkcs12 -in flightapi-test.server.com.pfx -clcerts -nokeys -out flightapi-test.server.com.crt
- Verify
openssl rsa -in flightapi-test.server.com.key -check openssl x509 -in flightapi-test.server.com.crt -text -noout
Howto to convert a existing Apache/SSL Site to a PFX File
- Choose any Linux workstation to use openssl, export the key:
openssl pkcs12 -inkey privatekey.pem -in certificate.txt -export -out iis-import-file.pfx
Important: If the process fails with "unable to load private key" then please check your pivate key, specialy if you have copied the key trhough the clipboard, watch for special charcters such as UTF etc. at the beginning of the file, also put a start and end quotation into the file like:
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- the key follows here .... -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
Create your own Certification Authority (CA)
Sample of howto create a CA and then sign a wildcard certificate, Note: a backup of the keys has been copied here: vm-ops02://usr/local/www/wiki.intern/download/
Create CA Root Key
openssl genrsa -out RootCA.key 2048
Create CA Certificate
openssl req -x509 -new -nodes -key RootCA.key -sha256 -days 10950 -out RootCA.pem You are about to be asked to enter information that will be incorporated into your certificate request. What you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name or a DN. There are quite a few fields but you can leave some blank For some fields there will be a default value, If you enter '.', the field will be left blank. ----- Country Name (2 letter code) [AU]:DE State or Province Name (full name) [Some-State]:Hessen Locality Name (eg, city) []:Frankfurt am Main Organization Name (eg, company) [Internet Widgits Pty Ltd]:SomeCorp - Ansible CA Trust Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:MIS Common Name (e.g. server FQDN or YOUR name) []:vm-ansible01.server.com Email Address []:mis@server.com
Convert pem to binary
openssl x509 -outform der -in RootCA.pem -out RootCA.crt
Create a CSR for a wildcard certificate
openssl req -new -key server.com.wildcard.key -out server.com.wildcard.csr You are about to be asked to enter information that will be incorporated into your certificate request. What you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name or a DN. There are quite a few fields but you can leave some blank For some fields there will be a default value, If you enter '.', the field will be left blank. ----- Country Name (2 letter code) [AU]:DE State or Province Name (full name) [Some-State]:Hessen Locality Name (eg, city) []:Frankfurt am Main Organization Name (eg, company) [Internet Widgits Pty Ltd]:SomeCorp-Ansible-Certificate Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:MIS Common Name (e.g. server FQDN or YOUR name) []:*.server.com Email Address []:mis@server.com Please enter the following 'extra' attributes to be sent with your certificate request A challenge password []:omega An optional company name []:SomeCorp
Adding extended attributes to your certificate
*Create ext.cfg extendedKeyUsage=serverAuth,clientAuth subjectAltName=DNS:*.server.com
Sign the wildcard certificate
openssl x509 -req -in server.com.wildcard.csr -CA RootCA.pem -CAkey RootCA.key -CAcreateserial -out server.com.wildcard.crt -days 9125 -sha256 -extfile ext.cfg
Convert to pfx
openssl pkcs12 -inkey server.com.wildcard.key -in server.com.wildcard.crt -export -out server.com.wildcard.pfx
Importing the CA Certificate
Linux
- On Debian, copy the CA pem file to the certification directory
cp RootCA.pem /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/SomeCorpCA.crt
- Run
update-ca-certificates
- To delete:
rm /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/SomeCorpRootCA.crt
- Run
update-ca-certificates --fresh
- To control you may look into /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
Windows
- Copy RootCA.pem to your local disk, rename it to RootCA.crt
- Method1:
- Double click the certificate, click install, choose Local Machine, Import to Trusted Root Certification Authorities
- Method2:
- Run mmc, add the snap in Certificates, navigate to Trusted Root Certification Authorities, right click Certificates, All Tasks / Import
Important notice Keep in mind that Firefox has it's own CA management
Certificates
fra01.local
production.local
PowerShell
Verify by Thumbprint
PS C:\Users\operator> $thumbprint = "10767ae8c7ff178937b59d78383c1d4af4231b16" Get-ChildItem -Path cert:\LocalMachine\My -Recurse | Where-Object { $_.Thumbprint -eq $thumbprint } | Select-Object * PSPath : Microsoft.PowerShell.Security\Certificate::LocalMachine\My\10767AE8C7FF178937B59D78383C1D4AF4231B16 PSParentPath : Microsoft.PowerShell.Security\Certificate::LocalMachine\My PSChildName : 10767AE8C7FF178937B59D78383C1D4AF4231B16 PSDrive : Cert PSProvider : Microsoft.PowerShell.Security\Certificate PSIsContainer : False EnhancedKeyUsageList : {Server Authentication (1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.1), Client Authentication (1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.2)} DnsNameList : {admin.agent.server.com, www.admin.agent.server.com} SendAsTrustedIssuer : False EnrollmentPolicyEndPoint : Microsoft.CertificateServices.Commands.EnrollmentEndPointProperty EnrollmentServerEndPoint : Microsoft.CertificateServices.Commands.EnrollmentEndPointProperty PolicyId : Archived : False Extensions : {System.Security.Cryptography.Oid, System.Security.Cryptography.Oid, System.Security.Cryptography.Oid, System.Security.Cryptography.Oid...} FriendlyName : admin.agent.server.com IssuerName : System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X500DistinguishedName NotAfter : 11.10.2020 01:59:59 NotBefore : 13.07.2017 02:00:00 HasPrivateKey : True PrivateKey : PublicKey : System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.PublicKey RawData : {48, 130, 5, 92...} SerialNumber : 5483E0BCAE4BC69ED3539744DBBD7F62 SubjectName : System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X500DistinguishedName SignatureAlgorithm : System.Security.Cryptography.Oid Thumbprint : 10767AE8C7FF178937B59D78383C1D4AF4231B16 Version : 3 Handle : 543341245552 Issuer : CN=COMODO RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB Subject : CN=admin.agent.server.com, OU=Domain Control Validated
Self Sign Certificate
- Power Shell 5 is needed to do this, run $PSVersionTable to get the PS version
- https://aka.ms/wmf5download
- https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/powershell/wmf/5.1/install-configure
Easy command
New-SelfSignedCertificate -Subject "Test" -DnsName "*.costoso100.com" -CertStoreLocation "cert:\LocalMachine\My"
List Certificate Store
dir cert:\LocalMachine\my or dir cert:\localmachine\my | Where-Object { $_.hasPrivateKey }
Export to PFX
$mypwd = ConvertTo-SecureString -String "omega" -Force -AsPlainText Get-ChildItem -Path cert:\localMachine\my\4E1E4D2DAC9158A6E7F7112C1A6ECB02D0777AF8 | Export-PfxCertificate -FilePath C:\temp\mypfx.pfx -Password $mypwd
HTTP Server Samples
Apache Config
# ================================================= # SSL/TLS settings # ================================================= <VirtualHost *:443> ServerName icinga.intern DocumentRoot /usr/local/icinga/share SSLEngine on SSLOptions +StrictRequire <Directory /> SSLRequireSSL </Directory> SSLProtocol -all +TLSv1 +SSLv3 SSLCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM:!aNULL:+SHA1:+MD5:+HIGH:+MEDIUM SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/icinga.server.com.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/icinga.server.com.key SSLVerifyClient none SSLProxyEngine off <IfModule mime.c> AddType application/x-x509-ca-cert .crt AddType application/x-pkcs7-crl .crl </IfModule> SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" \ #nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \ #downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0 </VirtualHost>
NGINX configuration sample with reverse proxy
- This gives an A+ on https://www.ssllabs.com
server { listen 443; server_name flightapi-test.server.com; ssl on; ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/flightapi-test.server.com.crt; ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/flightapi-test.server.com.key; #https://cipherli.st/ ssl_protocols TLSv1.2; ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on; ssl_dhparam /etc/nginx/dhparam.pem; # openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/dhparam.pem 4096 ssl_ciphers ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA512:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA512:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384; ssl_ecdh_curve secp384r1; # Requires nginx >= 1.1.0 ssl_session_timeout 10m; ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m; ssl_session_tickets off; # Requires nginx >= 1.5.9 ssl_stapling on; # Requires nginx >= 1.3.7 ssl_stapling_verify on; # Requires nginx => 1.3.7 #resolver $DNS-IP-1 $DNS-IP-2 valid=300s; #resolver_timeout 5s; add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains; preload"; add_header X-Frame-Options DENY; add_header X-Content-Type-Options nosniff; add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block"; location / { proxy_pass http://flightapi.temyra.net:7725/FlightAPI; proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https; } }
Letsencrypt
On Debian install:
apt-get install certbot
Spin up an own webserver
letsencrypt certonly --domain domain.org --renew-by-default --standalone
Use webroot
Use the follwoing parameters to start signing via www root, this way you can let apache2 running, no need to stop
letsencrypt certonly --webroot --webroot-path /var/www/domain.org/ --renew-by-default --text --agree-tos -d domain.org
- If the apache site is password protected then overwrite the authentication to the well-down directory:
<Directory "/usr/local/www/hftext.server.com/cgi-bin/.well-known"> Order allow,deny Allow from all Require all granted </Directory>
- If redirects are configured then check if a trailing slash has been set:
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName hftext.server.com ... Redirect / https://hftext.server.com/ </VirtualHost>
Test commands
openssl s_client -showcerts -connect flightapi-test.server.com:7718 openssl s_client -showcerts -connect flightapi-node02.temyra.net:7718 openssl s_client -connect flightapi-test.server.com:7718 -ssl3 gnutls-cli -d 5 flightapi-node02.temyra.net -p 7718 gnutls-cli -d 5 flightapi-test.server.com -p 7718 curl -vvvvv https://flightapi.temyra.net:7722
Links
- https://www.ssllabs.com/
- http://www.akadia.com/services/ssh_test_certificate.html
- https://ssl-trust.com/SSL-Zertifikate