[ REPOST: I apologise for all the blank lines in the above post ] Hi all, I am working in a test environment with Apache v2.2.14 on XP Pro SP3 and I have experienced difficulties setting up SSL Client Authentication.
I have used the openssl command line tool to set up my private key, server certificate, and a certificate authority, and I have configured the httpd-ssl.conf file. All works as expected, except when I try to configure SSL Client Authentication. All browsers report an error and are unable to establish an SSL session, eg with Firefox :- Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to myhost_1. SSL peer was unable to negotiate an acceptable set of security parameters. (Error code: ssl_error_handshake_failure_alert) (myhost_1 is configured as 127.0.0.1 in hosts file) In the config which works I have :- <VirtualHost _default_:443> SSLEngine on SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP:+eNULL SSLCertificateFile "/xampp/xampp/apache/conf/test/server.crt" SSLCertificateKeyFile "/xampp/xampp/apache/conf/test/server.key" #SSLCACertificateFile "/xampp/xampp/apache/conf/test/ca/ca.crt" #SSLVerifyClient require #SSLVerifyDepth 10 </VirtualHost> When I uncomment the lines to configure SSL Client Authentication then I get the above errors. The browser is supposed to request which client certificate the user wants to use, then I can select the one I created and signed with ca.crt, which I have set as a trusted CA in the browser. My Apache server has the following identifier (from HTTP Response header) :- Server: Apache/2.2.14 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8l mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.3.1 mod_apreq2-20090110/2.7.1 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1 The openssl version I am using is also 0.9.8l (l for 'link'). Here are the openssl commands I used :- openssl genrsa -out ca.key 1024 openssl req -new -key ca.key -x509 -days 60 -out ca.crt openssl genrsa -out server.key 1024 openssl req -new -key server.key -days 90 -out server.csr openssl x509 -req -in server.csr -set_serial 451470 -CA ca\ca.crt -CAkey ca\ca.key -out server.crt openssl genrsa -out client_a.key 1024 openssl req -new -key client_a.key -days 90 -out client_a.csr openssl x509 -req -in client_a.csr -set_serial 451470 -CA ..\ca\ca.crt -CAkey ..\ca\ca.key -out client_a.crt I have carefully studied all documentation and I just wonder why this is not working - have I misunderstood something or is there possibly a bug? Thank you in advance for any advice. Alan. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
