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Migrating to EJBCA from OpenSSL and TinyCA

Install and configure EJBCA

EJBCA 6.0.3 – http://www.ejbca.org/download.html

JBoss AS 7.1.1 Final – http://download.jboss.org/jbossas/7.1/jboss-as-7.1.1.Final/jboss-as-7.1.1.Final.zip

Prereqs:

Ref:

Detailed deployment guide: http://majic.rs/book/free-software-x509-cookbook/setting-up-ejbca-as-certification-authority

EJBCA doc: http://wiki.ejbca.org/

Architecture

Recommended architecture (source: http://ejbca.org/architecture.html)

Import existing OpenSSL CA

Step 1 – Export the OpenSSL priv key and cert to a PKCS#12 keystore:

openssl pkcs12 -export -out exitingCA1.p12 -inkey  \
        -in  -name existingCA1

Step 2 – Import the PKCS#12 keystore to EJBCA CA

/bin/ejbca.sh ca importca  existingCA1.p12

Step 3 – Verify import

/bin/ejbca.sh ra adduser

### IMPORTANT ###

Distinguished name order of openssl may be opposite of ejbca default configuration – http://www.csita.unige.it/software/free/ejbca/ … If so, this ordering must changed in ejbca configuration prior to deploying (can’t be set on a per CA basis)

Have not been able to replicate this issue in testing.

Import existing TinyCA CA

Basic Admin and User operations

Create and end entity profile for server/client entities

Step 1 – Create a Certificate Profile (http://wiki.ejbca.org/certificateprofiles)

Step 2 – Create and End Entity Profile (http://wiki.ejbca.org/endentityprofiles)

* EndEntities can be deleted using:

/bin/ejbca.sh ra delendentity 

Issuing certificates from CSRs

End entities need to be created for clients/servers that require certificates signed by our CA.

Step 1 – Create and End Entity (http://ejbca.org/userguide.html#Issue a new server certificate from a CSR)

Step 2 – Sign CSR using the End Entity which is associated with a CA

Importing existing certificates

EJBCA can create endentities and import their existing certificate one-by-one or in bulk (http://www.ejbca.org/docs/adminguide.html#Importing Certificates). Bulk inserts import all certificates under a single user which may not be desirable. Below is a script to import all certs in a directory one by one under a new endentity which will take the name of the certificate CN.

#!/bin/sh

# for each certificate in the directory
#       create and enduserentity
#       enduserentity username = certificate CN
#       enduserentity token/pwrd = certificate CN

EJBCA_HOME="/usr/share/ejbca"
IMPORT_DIR=$1
CA=$2
ENDENTITYPROFILE=$3
SSLCERTPROFILE=$4
AP="_OTE"

if [ $# -lt 4 ]; then
        echo "usage: import_existing_certs.sh    "
        exit 1
fi
for X in $IMPORT_DIR*.pem
do
        echo "######################################################"
        echo "Importing: " $X
        CN=$(openssl x509 -in $X -noout -text | grep Subject: | sed -n 's/^.*CN=\(.*\),*/\1/p')
        echo "CN: " $CN
        printf "Running import: %s ca importcert '%s' '%s' '%s' ACTIVE NULL '%s' '%s' '%s'\n" "$EJBCA_HOME/bin/ejbca.sh" "$CN" "$CN" "$CA" "$X" "$ENDENTITYPROFILE" "$SSLCERTPROFILE"
        $EJBCA_HOME/bin/ejbca.sh ca importcert "$CN$AP" "$CN$AP" "$CA" ACTIVE null $X $ENDENTITYPROFILE $SSLCERTPROFILE
        echo "######################################################"
done

Creating administrators

Create administrators that can sign CSR and revoke certificates: http://ejbca.org/userguide.html#Administrator%20roles

Revoking certificates

#Generate CRL via command line
# List CAs
/usr/share/ejbca/bin/ejbca.sh CA listcas
# Create new CRLs:
/usr/share/ejbca/bin/ejbca.sh CA createcrl "" -pem 
# Export CRL to file
/usr/share/ejbca/bin/ejbca.sh CA getcrl "" -pem .pem

Checking certificate validity/revoke status via OSCP

openssl ocsp -issuer gtld_CA_cert.pem -CAfile gtld_CA_cert.pem \
-cert gtld_registrar5.pem -req_text -url http://localhost:8080/ejbca/publicweb/status/ocsp

Monitoring expiring certs

/bin/ejbca.sh listexpired 100

 

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