OpenSSL Cheatsheet
Having to deal with the recent DigiCert Revocation & Symantec Distrust fiasco led to an opportunity to become more familiar with OpenSSL.
Fortunately only 18 certificates (out of around 45) had to be replaced, unfortunately a client’s monster certificate which has 69 SANs was amongst the 18!
Below is a handful of commands which I used frequently with the replacement certificates, I couldn’t find a concise list which outlined them well so thought why not post about it.
Create private key
openssl genrsa -out private.key 2048
Verify private key
openssl rsa -in private.key –check
Generate CSR with existing private key
openssl req -out csr.csr -key private.key -new
Verify CSR
openssl req -text -noout -verify -in csr.csr
Verify certificate
openssl x509 -text -noout -in cerificate.cer
Verify certificate chain installed on server
openssl s_client -showcerts -host example.com -port 443
Convert certificate and private key to PFX container
openssl pkcs12 -export -out certificate.pfx -inkey private.key -in certificate.cer -chain intermediate.cer
Extract private key from PFX
openssl pkcs12 -in certificate.pfx -nocerts -out private.pem
Remove passphrase from private key
openssl rsa -in private.pem -out private.key