wiki:SecurityInfo
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Transition Network Security Information

The three Transition Network servers, wiki:PuffinServer, wiki:PenguinServer and wiki:ParrotServer all have a *.transitionnetwork.org SSL certificate from ​Gandi which is used by web servers and mail servers.

Note there is a issue regarding enabling HTTPS for the WordPress sites on ParrotServer, see ticket:540.

Fingerprints

Getting a new certificate

There is a cronjob on wiki:PenguinServer to check the date of the cert see ticket:685#comment:9

Checking the HTTPS certificates

There is ​a page for users on the main wiki, following is some more techie info.

You can check the servers using the ssllabs.com test here:

See also (newest items at the end):

Check the SSL cert on the command line

Following ​the suggestion here you can get the fingerprints on the the command line remotely: 

openssl s_client -connect transitionnetwork.org:443 < /dev/null 2>/dev/null | openssl x509 -fingerprint -noout -in /dev/stdin
SHA1 Fingerprint=67:E3:06:44:B5:95:67:74:1A:7A:EC:E2:82:C5:FC:27:A7:01:9C:F7

And on the server: 

cd /etc/ssl/transitionnetwork.org
openssl x509 -noout -in transitionnetwork.org.crt -fingerprint
SHA1 Fingerprint=67:E3:06:44:B5:95:67:74:1A:7A:EC:E2:82:C5:FC:27:A7:01:9C:F7
openssl x509 -noout -in transitionnetwork.org.crt -fingerprint -sha256
SHA256 Fingerprint=19:BF:1D:C7:34:FB:12:D1:AB:69:6E:96:1A:E3:94:C0:B8:C0:F6:85:03:D2:8A:E9:57:42:61:B3:F2:95:39:28

The following is based on ​instructions from nixCraft, see also ticket:165.

Create directory to store certificate: 

mkdir -p ~/.cert/www.transitionnetwork.org/
cd ~/.cert/www.transitionnetwork.org/

Retrieve the www.transitionnetwork.org certificate provided by the Transition Network web server: 

openssl s_client -showcerts -connect www.transitionnetwork.org:443

Look at the end of the output, you will have one of these: 

    Verify return code: 21 (unable to verify the first certificate)

    Verify return code: 19 (self signed certificate in certificate chain)

Note the error at the end, "Verify return code: 21 (unable to verify the first certificate)".

Copy from the -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- to the -----END CERTIFICATE----- which starts with 0 s:/OU=Domain Control Validated/OU=Gandi Standard Wildcard SSL/CN=*.transitionnetwork.org, and save it in your ~/.cert/www.transitionnetwork.org/ directory as www.transitionnetwork.org.pem.

This certificate was issued by Gandi, so you need to get the various certificates ​from gandi.net and change them into pem format (note this needs updating for SHA256 certs) 

wget http://crt.gandi.net/GandiStandardSSLCA.crt
wget http://crt.usertrust.com/UTNAddTrustServer_CA.crt
wget http://crt.usertrust.com/AddTrustExternalCARoot.crt
openssl x509 -inform DER -in GandiStandardSSLCA.crt -out GandiStandardSSLCA.pem
openssl x509 -inform DER -in AddTrustExternalCARoot.crt -out AddTrustExternalCARoot.pem
openssl x509 -inform DER -in UTNAddTrustServer_CA.crt -out UTNAddTrustServer_CA.pem

Create symbolic links to files named by the hash values using c_rehash, enter: 

c_rehash ~/.cert/www.transitionnetwork.org/

To confirm you have the correct and working certificates, enter: 

openssl s_client -CApath ~/.cert/www.transitionnetwork.org/ -connect www.transitionnetwork.org:443

And you should now output like above but with this at the end: 

    Verify return code: 0 (ok)