OK, I'm trying to use client certificates to authenticate a python client on a Nginx server. Here is what I have tried so far:
Local CA created
openssl genrsa -des3 -out ca.key 4096
openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -key ca.key -out ca.crt
Created server key and certificate
openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 1024
openssl rsa -in server.key -out server.key
openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr
openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in server.csr -CA ca.crt -CAkey ca.key -set_serial 01 -out server.crt
A similar procedure is used to create a client key and certificate.
openssl genrsa -des3 -out client.key 1024
openssl rsa -in client.key -out client.key
openssl req -new -key client.key -out client.csr
openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in client.csr -CA ca.crt -CAkey ca.key -set_serial 01 -out client.crt
Add these lines to nginx configuration
server {
listen 443;
ssl on;
server_name dev.lightcloud.com;
keepalive_timeout 70;
access_log /usr/local/var/log/nginx/lightcloud.access.log;
error_log /usr/local/var/log/nginx/lightcloud.error.log;
ssl_certificate /Users/wombat/Lightcloud-Web/ssl/server.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /Users/wombat/Lightcloud-Web/ssl/server.key;
ssl_client_certificate /Users/wombat/Lightcloud-Web/ssl/ca.crt;
ssl_verify_client on;
location / {
uwsgi_pass unix: ///tmp/uwsgi.socket;
include uwsgi_params;
}
}
created a PEM client file
cat client.crt client.key ca.crt> client.pem
test python script created
import ssl
import http.client
context = ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23)
context.load_verify_locations("ca.crt")
context.load_cert_chain("client.pem")
conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("localhost", context=context)
conn.set_debuglevel(3)
conn.putrequest('GET', '/')
conn.endheaders()
response = conn.getresponse()
print(response.read())
400 SSL- . ?