[openssl-users] Intermediate cert file failure

[Tomas Mraz]

On Fri, 2018-07-27 at 12:49 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> 
> On 07/27/2018 12:35 PM, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
> > 
> > > On Jul 27, 2018, at 11:25 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.c
> > > om> wrote:
> > > 
> > > 3064446992:error:2006D080:BIO routines:BIO_new_file:no such
> > > file:crypto/bio/bss_file.c:79:
> > > variable lookup failed for CA_default::default_md
> > > 3064446992:error:0E06D06C:configuration file
> > > routines:NCONF_get_string:no
> > > value:crypto/conf/conf_lib.c:275:group=CA_default name=default_md
> > 
> > Well ca(1) wants either an explicit "md" option or a default_md.
> > Perhaps it does not yet support ed25519.  You can sign directly
> > with "openssl x509", but first try
> > 
> > 	openssl ca -md null
> > or
> > 	openssl ca -md default
> > 
> > and see if either of those work.
> > 
> 
> -md null worked:
> 
>     openssl ca -config $cadir/openssl-root.cnf -days 3650\
>         -extensions v3_intermediate_ca -notext -md null\
>         -in $dir/csr/intermediate.csr.$format\
>         -out $dir/certs/intermediate.cert.pem
> 
> Can't open /root/ca/intermediate/index.txt.attr for reading, No such 
> file or directory
> 3064946704:error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or 
> directory:crypto/bio/bss_file.c:72:fopen('/root/ca/intermediate/index
> .txt.attr','r')
> 3064946704:error:2006D080:BIO routines:BIO_new_file:no such 
> file:crypto/bio/bss_file.c:79:
> Check that the request matches the signature
> Signature ok
> Certificate Details:
>          Serial Number:
>              ad:0f:52:5d:91:70:1a:d3
>          Validity
>              Not Before: Jul 27 16:41:03 2018 GMT
>              Not After : Jul 24 16:41:03 2028 GMT
>          Subject:
>              countryName               = US
>              stateOrProvinceName       = MI
>              organizationName          = HTT Consulting
>              commonName                = Signing CA
>          X509v3 extensions:
>              X509v3 Subject Key Identifier:
> DB:5F:0C:00:54:DD:A6:EB:61:BD:79:13:0A:2D:EA:0A:19:82:E8:C5
>              X509v3 Authority Key Identifier:
> keyid:D6:1B:BA:96:44:EF:F1:07:59:35:A7:F2:77:5F:82:24:21:53:9A:9F
> 
>              X509v3 Basic Constraints: critical
>                  CA:TRUE, pathlen:0
>              X509v3 Key Usage: critical
>                  Certificate Sign, CRL Sign
>              X509v3 Subject Alternative Name:
>                  email:postmaster at htt-consult.com
> Certificate is to be certified until Jul 24 16:41:03 2028 GMT (3650
> days)
> Sign the certificate? [y/n]:y
> 
> 
> 1 out of 1 certificate requests certified, commit? [y/n]y
> Write out database with 1 new entries
> Data Base Updated
> 
> There was no file index.txt.attr, but now there is:
> 
> # cat index.txt.attr
> unique_subject = yes
> 
> I don't remember this from my ecdsa work with 1.1.0
> 
> This issue with md is definitely and issue.  I can try -md null on
> the 
> self-signed root cert, but it seems that this should not even be 
> referenced for ed25519
> 
> But I got my intermediate cert, so on to the next step.
> 
> thanks for your help, Viktor.

Please open a Github issue for the default_md problem. It really
hampers the usability.

-- 
Tomáš Mráz
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