On Mon, 18 Apr 2016, david wrote:
FOLLOWUP & REPORT
I had lots of suggestions, and the most persuasive was to try
OpenVPN. I already had a CA working, so issuing certificates was
easy. The HOW-TO guides were less helpful than I could hope, but
comparing several of them, applying common sense, and trying things
out, I arrived at a dead-end. Here's essentially what happened:
- None of the HOW-TOs were very clear about the need to add some attributes
to a certificate, keyUsage and extendedKeyUsage. They had different values
for server and client. OpenSSL documentation was a big vague on how to add
them, but I think I did - the print out of the entity certificates showed the
values. The attempt to connect failed. The client log is below. I think
it's complaining that the CA certificate doesn't have the ke Usage extension,
which makes no sense to me. Such an extension should be in the end-entity
certificate, not the CA's, unless I'm wrong. I checked the server and really
think that the certificates are in the right place.
Here's how I managed that in my openssl.cnf file. Lots of bits ellided
for clarity's sake:
### start ###
[ ca ]
default_ca = CA_default
[ CA_default ]
x509_extensions = server_cert
[ server_cert ]
basicConstraints=CA:FALSE
keyUsage = nonRepudiation, dataEncipherment, digitalSignature, keyEncipherment
extendedKeyUsage = serverAuth, clientAuth
nsCertType = server, client
### end ###
I think the nsCertType directive may be unnecessary these days, but I
keep it around because it doesn't hurt anything.
The important bit is the extendedKeyUsage line; I'm pretty sure that
an OpenVPN server needs the serverAuth extension. For instance, here
is the X509 extensions configuration for a server used by EasyRSA:
basicConstraints = CA:FALSE
subjectKeyIdentifier = hash
authorityKeyIdentifier = keyid,issuer:always
extendedKeyUsage = serverAuth,clientAuth
keyUsage = digitalSignature,keyEncipherment
You can ask openssl to tell you the purpose of a certificate:
[bash]$ openssl x509 -noout -purpose -in cert.pem | grep SSL
SSL client : Yes
SSL client CA : No
SSL server : Yes
SSL server CA : No
Netscape SSL server : Yes
Netscape SSL server CA : No
Anyway, those are the extensions that should do away with these
errors:
Mon Apr 18 05:34:50 2016 VERIFY OK: depth=1, C=US, ST=California, L=San
Francisco, OU=Certificate Authority, O=XXXX, CN=X.X.X
Mon Apr 18 05:34:50 2016 Certificate does not have key usage extension
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Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/
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