Setting Up the OmniOCce CA

Prepare the CA directory

mkdir ca
cd ca
mkdir certs crl newcerts private
chmod 700 private
touch index.txt
echo 1000 > serial
echo 1000 > crlnumber

omniosce-ca.cnf:

[ ca ]
default_ca = CA_default

[ CA_default ]
# Directory and file locations.
dir               = /home/oetiker/checkouts/omniosce-ca
certs             = $dir/certs
crl_dir           = $dir/crl
new_certs_dir     = $dir/newcerts
database          = $dir/index.txt
serial            = $dir/serial
RANDFILE          = $dir/private/.rand

# allow to re-issue certs
unique_subject    = no

# The root key and root certificate.
private_key       = $dir/private/ca.key.pem
certificate       = $dir/certs/ca.cert.pem

# For certificate revocation lists.
crlnumber         = $dir/crlnumber
crl               = $dir/crl/ca.crl.pem
crl_extensions    = crl_ext
default_crl_days  = 30

# SHA-1 is deprecated, so use SHA-2 instead.
default_md        = sha256

name_opt          = ca_default
cert_opt          = ca_default
default_days      = 375
preserve          = no
policy            = policy_loose

[ crl_ext ]
# issuerAltName=issuer:copy  #this would copy the issuer name to altname
authorityKeyIdentifier=keyid:always

[ policy_loose ]
countryName             = supplied
stateOrProvinceName     = optional
localityName            = supplied
organizationName        = supplied
organizationalUnitName  = optional
commonName              = supplied
emailAddress            = supplied

[ req ]
default_bits        = 2048
distinguished_name  = req_distinguished_name
string_mask         = utf8only
default_md          = sha256
x509_extensions     = omniosce_ca

[ req_distinguished_name ]
countryName                     = Country Name (2 letter code)
stateOrProvinceName             = State or Province Name
localityName                    = Locality Name
0.organizationName              = Organization Name
organizationalUnitName          = Organizational Unit Name
commonName                      = Common Name
emailAddress                    = Email Address

# Optionally, specify some defaults.
countryName_default             = GB
stateOrProvinceName_default     =
localityName_default            =
0.organizationName_default      = OmniOSce or MyCompany
emailAddress			= github-id@omnios.org or me@mycompany.com

[ omniosce_ca ]
subjectKeyIdentifier = hash
authorityKeyIdentifier = keyid:always,issuer
basicConstraints = critical, CA:true
crlDistributionPoints = URI:https://crl.omniosce.org/root.crl
keyUsage = critical, digitalSignature, cRLSign, keyCertSign

[ ips_cert ]
basicConstraints = CA:FALSE
subjectKeyIdentifier = hash
authorityKeyIdentifier = keyid,issuer
keyUsage = digitalSignature
extendedKeyUsage = codeSigning, clientAuth

edit this to change the dir= line to the ca location

openssl genrsa -aes256 -out private/ca.key.pem 4096

enter passphrase when prompted

openssl req -config omniosce-ca.cnf -key private/ca.key.pem \
        -new -x509 -days 7300 -sha256 -extensions omniosce_ca \
        -out certs/ca.cert.pem

answer questions for information in request

chmod 444 certs/ca.cert.pem

Create the Cert revokation List

openssl ca -config omniosce-ca.cnf -gencrl -out root.crl
scp root.crl omniosce:/crl

Revoke a Certificate

openssl ca -config omniosce-ca.cnf -revoke newcerts/1000.pem
scp root.crl omniosce:/crl

Create Cert for a Guardian

First the Guardian creates a CSR

wget https://downloads.omniosce.org/omniosce-ca.cnf
openssl genrsa -aes256 -out key.pem 2048
openssl req -config omniosce-ca.cnf \
        -key key.pem -new -sha256 -out csr.pem

and sends it to ca@ommniosce.org

The CA then sign the csr with:

openssl ca -config omniosce-ca.cnf \
        -extensions ips_cert -days 366 -notext \
        -md sha256 -in csr.pem

and send the certificate back.