CURLOPT_PINNEDPUBLICKEY.3: Improve pubkey extraction example

- Show how a certificate can be obtained using OpenSSL.

Bug: https://github.com/bagder/curl/pull/430
Reported-by: Daniel Hwang
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Jay Satiro
2015-09-14 03:16:04 -04:00
parent 202162daeb
commit b550a1c067

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@@ -59,10 +59,24 @@ if(curl) {
If you do not have the server's public key file you can extract it from the If you do not have the server's public key file you can extract it from the
server's certificate. server's certificate.
.nf .nf
# retrieve the server's certificate if you don't already have it
#
# be sure to examine the certificate to see if it is what you expected
#
# Windows-specific:
# - Use NUL instead of /dev/null.
# - OpenSSL may wait for input instead of disconnecting. Hit enter.
# - If you don't have sed, then just copy the certificate into a file:
# Lines from -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- to -----END CERTIFICATE-----.
#
openssl s_client -servername www.test.com -connect www.test.com:443 < /dev/null | sed -n "/-----BEGIN/,/-----END/p" > www.test.com.pem
# extract public key in pem format from certificate # extract public key in pem format from certificate
openssl x509 -in www.test.com.pem -pubkey -noout > www.test.com.pubkey.pem openssl x509 -in www.test.com.pem -pubkey -noout > www.test.com.pubkey.pem
# convert public key from pem to der # convert public key from pem to der
openssl asn1parse -noout -inform pem -in www.test.com.pubkey.pem -out www.test.com.pubkey.der openssl asn1parse -noout -inform pem -in www.test.com.pubkey.pem -out www.test.com.pubkey.der
# sha256 hash and base64 encode der to string for use # sha256 hash and base64 encode der to string for use
openssl dgst -sha256 -binary www.test.com.pubkey.der | openssl base64 openssl dgst -sha256 -binary www.test.com.pubkey.der | openssl base64
.fi .fi