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Last article of a series of 4 articles.

This time, we will push it a bit further on the certificate side (using SAN field) as modern browsers like Chrome demand this field :

-divert dns traffic to a rogue local dns server : see here

-spoof a remote hostname with our local ip (using tool in step above) – these 2 steps could be skipped if you modify your local hosts file.

-setup a https server locally with a « self signed » certificate (see below)

First our root ca (dont forget to add in your ca store):
openssl genrsa -out rootCA.key 2048
openssl req -x509 -new -nodes -key rootCA.key -sha256 -days 1024 -out rootCA.pem
Lets add it to our root certificate authorities : certutil -enterprise -f -v -addstore « root » rootCA.pem

Second our CSR:
modify our openssl.cnf accordingly : add subjectAltName=DNS:fakedomain.com,DNS:*.fakedomain.com under section v3_req
set the path to your your cnf file with set OPENSSL_CONF=c:\_apps\OpenSSL\ssl\openssl.cnf
generate your csr
openssl genrsa -out device.key 2048
openssl req -new -key device.key -out fakedomain.csr
About the CN, enter « fakedomain.com »

Last, our CRT (the trick is is to point at your cnf or else the SAN field will not be taken care of)
openssl x509 -req -in fakedomain.csr -CA rootCA.pem -CAkey rootCA.key -CAcreateserial -out fakedomain.crt -days 500 -sha256 -extfile c:\_apps\openssl\ssl\openssl.cnf

And tada, launch your chrome browser and browse https://www.fakedomain.com/ and chrome will be happy.

note:

alternative to create a server cert:

openssl req -new -newkey rsa:4096 -days 365 -nodes -x509 -keyout rsaprivate.key -out servercertificate.crt

cat rsaprivate.key servercertificate.crt > my.pem

Previously we have built a HTTP server.
This time, lets build a HTTPS server.

The main difference compared to previous article is that this time, we need an object of type TIdServerIOHandlerSSLOpenSSL to provide certificates details and to handle the ssl part (client hello, server hello, etc).

Main code below.


IdServerIOHandlerSSLOpenSSL1.SSLOptions.CertFile := 'device.crt';
IdServerIOHandlerSSLOpenSSL1.SSLOptions.KeyFile := 'device.key';
//IdServerIOHandlerSSLOpenSSL1.SSLOptions.RootCertFile := 'rootca.pem'; //optional since cert is signed with rootca is added to local ca authorities
IdServerIOHandlerSSLOpenSSL1.SSLOptions.Mode := sslmServer;
IdServerIOHandlerSSLOpenSSL1.SSLOptions.VerifyMode := [];
IdServerIOHandlerSSLOpenSSL1.SSLOptions.VerifyDepth := 0;
if rbtlsv12.Checked then IdServerIOHandlerSSLOpenSSL1.SSLOptions.SSLVersions := [sslvTLSv1_2];
if rbtlsv11.Checked then IdServerIOHandlerSSLOpenSSL1.SSLOptions.SSLVersions := [sslvTLSv1_1];
if rbtlsv10.Checked then IdServerIOHandlerSSLOpenSSL1.SSLOptions.SSLVersions := [sslvTLSv1];
if rbsslv3.Checked then IdServerIOHandlerSSLOpenSSL1.SSLOptions.SSLVersions := [sslvSSLv3 ];
IdServerIOHandlerSSLOpenSSL1.OnGetPassword := GetPassword; //not needed if we dont have a password on our cert

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Code is on github.

About the certificate part:
-generate the root ca (and add it to your client root ca’s)
openssl genrsa -out rootCA.key 2048
openssl req -x509 -new -nodes -key rootCA.key -sha256 -days 1024 -out rootCA.pem
-generate a csr (only the CN field matters and must match your local site – example : localhost or 127.0.0.1).
openssl genrsa -out device.key 2048
openssl req -new -key device.key -out device.csr
-use the root ca to generate a client cert from a csr
openssl x509 -req -in device.csr -CA rootCA.pem -CAkey rootCA.key -CAcreateserial -out device.crt -days 500 -sha256