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SynAck

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Certificate + PK -> Encrypt w/Password?
« on: May 25, 2018, 05:16:01 am »
I am trying to use an internal opnsense CA to create a certificate for another device. I've created the certificate and exported the cert + key in the PKCS #12 format, however the device won't allow an import without supplying the password for the private key. If I leave it blank, it just tells me I have to include the password -- there is no option to "import certificate without a password".

I've gone through the certificate screens in opnsense and I don't see a way to encrypt a key with a password prior to export. Is this something that can be done?
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FredTGB

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Re: Certificate + PK -> Encrypt w/Password?
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2018, 09:09:36 am »
Hello,

I second this request, for user certificates.
I've created a Mobile client VPN settings, and the usual way to create configurations for VPN Client users is to provide an encrypted p12 file.

Thanks,

Fred.
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mimugmail

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Re: Certificate + PK -> Encrypt w/Password?
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2018, 02:44:14 pm »
Can you try it via PowerShell?

Import-PfxCertificate –FilePath C:\pfxcert.pfx cert:\localMachine\my

Password should be optional via PS.
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Re: Certificate + PK -> Encrypt w/Password?
« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2018, 08:38:06 am »
The generated .p12 is Ok, and can be imported without password.

The suggestion is to have the possibility to specify a password. This is necessary, for security reasons, when you'd like to distribute certificates to users (in my case VPN users).

Regards,

Fred.
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Re: Certificate + PK -> Encrypt w/Password?
« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2018, 09:36:40 am »
Can you open a feature request in github/core?
I dont think will be done pre-MVC rewrite ...
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Re: Certificate + PK -> Encrypt w/Password?
« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2018, 11:46:04 am »
Done as #2609.
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