Sep 11, 2018 This OpenSSL Tutorial walks you thru How SSL Certificates, Private Keys, & CSRs Work. To generate a public and private key with a certificate signing request (CSR), run the following OpenSSL command. Openssl x509 -x509toreq -in certificate.crt -out CSR.csr -signkey privateKey.key. Dec 11, 2016 Hi, x509 certificates are used widely by a lot of applications. Generating x509 certificates seem to be hard and rocket science, but it is not. We will generate a key named t1.key and then create a signing request from this key. After that, to sign our request we will generate a self-signed CA key and certificate. The Certificate Authority providing your certificate (such as DigiCert) does not create or have your private key. If you have not yet installed your certificate, then the most likely location of your private key is on the computer or server where you generated the CSR.
You can use this Certificate Key Matcher to check whether a private key matches a certificate or whether a certificate matches a certificate signing request (CSR). When you are dealing with lots of different certificates it can be easy to lose track of which certificate goes with which private key or which CSR was used to generate which certificate. The Certificate Key Matcher tool makes it easy to determine whether a private key matches or a CSR matches a certificate.
The Certificate Key Matcher simply compares a hash of the public key from the private key, the certificate, or the CSR and tells you whether they match or not. You can check whether a certificate matches a private key, or a CSR matches a certificate on your own computer by using the OpenSSL commands below:
openssl pkey -in privateKey.key -pubout -outform pem | sha256sum
openssl x509 -in certificate.crt -pubkey -noout -outform pem | sha256sum
openssl req -in CSR.csr -pubkey -noout -outform pem | sha256sum
Your private key is intended to remain on the server. While we try to make this process as secure as possible by using SSL to encrypt the key when it is sent to the server, for complete security, we recommend that you manually check the public key hash of the private key on your server using the OpenSSL commands above.
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You can also do a consistency check on the private key if you are worried that it has been tampered with. See Hanno Böck's article How I tricked Symantec with a Fake Private Key for how to do this and when this might be useful.
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