So if you’re using a self-signed SSL cert which is for personal use but is public facing (similar to an SSH key upon first connect), you will get a scary warning about it of course! It is recommended to verify the cryptographic hash of that certificate to help ensure that there is no Person-In-The-Middle attack taking place. You can have some fun, at least, with self-signed certs because you can put almost anything in them so I wrote a little script to generate some leading 0’s in the fingerprint field. This helps to not only slow down an attacker trying to trick me (they need to generate something similar which takes a little more time) but it’s also easier to remember a more basic pattern (my laptop is a bit slow so I could only get 5 of them which is about 20-bits worth of nothing — The more 0s, The more secure! :):
$ openssl x509 -in crt.pem -noout -fingerprint SHA1 Fingerprint=00:00:0F:D1:86:3F:A0:39:10:67:78:0A:13:DD:3B:55:BC:68:A4:3B ==> crt.pem <== -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- MIIDOjCCAiICAQAwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEFBQAwYzELMAkGA1UEBhMCWloxCzAJBgNV BAcMAlpaMQswCQYDVQQKDAJaWjELMAkGA1UECAwCWloxEjAQBgNVBAMMCTEyNy4w LjAuMTEZMBcGA1UECwwQNERGNTRSOFM1QUo3S0tWVzAeFw0yMTA0MDEwMTE0Mjla Fw0zMTAzMzAwMTE0MjlaMGMxCzAJBgNVBAYTAlpaMQswCQYDVQQHDAJaWjELMAkG A1UECgwCWloxCzAJBgNVBAgMAlpaMRIwEAYDVQQDDAkxMjcuMC4wLjExGTAXBgNV BAsMEDRERjU0UjhTNUFKN0tLVlcwggEiMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4IBDwAwggEK AoIBAQDVjMyDU3S+b2kCQbnp2y6/TaYh85G/+neBL14o8emhwzngYP8BN6X+v9DJ qa5pl3JNEqO8VHpTfc05jrHMHYOp1/ciP4FrSg7li4+J4qhclaseYCRJSoARDtEW 9P5eO67ISWe714JhQP+jovb45/xy1AkL8rmS/IF/5DTBgaMFu2iZ2AoR4d+48Xpe f6sgddtYinBmZo4sTWV+4sUAoxRg7MAK6xMcublHR2YwYeV3VQmNRoXZ4kVwbjgY 56G90T6my7BOeyapVgybwwG7m6+yNQp4gw9ldac99qNSrQqeyNccXSRTIgpFwZx/ AMSGIxQy48nu9dZQV4Bz/Chfn6wXAgMBAAEwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEFBQADggEBADI3 DuPqiqv/z4isTRB7niUKtcNZ3c8f5yidxXqGwRSSvQR3krl9kWlIFdsWQ6jiKotB THGP6QeChD04XDvXdiPAGq/wdafGZlWGmyKc6+hyDRn4Jf47cazgR2cZgUwenWIs b+ORfLyESsCQiaHaE6pEg9seA588nz2I20GAtOK60ZpVFawKfv6NZnLLNmfUVusW aWZjdRLwsUino+XZxrcfadCuFKvOOFVjYSbiqzq63vPILrhtt/dwyy5eocXoWP4B Qs3iv31U+7yy2gT0BcnHHGwDq3gD8NS62UcnA/2ZOjgtR8P/bCsyldX92QWd1ysL uQY6WY16bWyAhdGS21A= -----END CERTIFICATE----- ==> key.pem <== -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- MIIEpQIBAAKCAQEA1YzMg1N0vm9pAkG56dsuv02mIfORv/p3gS9eKPHpocM54GD/ ATel/r/QyamuaZdyTRKjvFR6U33NOY6xzB2Dqdf3Ij+Ba0oO5YuPieKoXJWrHmAk SUqAEQ7RFvT+XjuuyElnu9eCYUD/o6L2+Of8ctQJC/K5kvyBf+Q0wYGjBbtomdgK EeHfuPF6Xn+rIHXbWIpwZmaOLE1lfuLFAKMUYOzACusTHLm5R0dmMGHld1UJjUaF 2eJFcG44GOehvdE+psuwTnsmqVYMm8MBu5uvsjUKeIMPZXWnPfajUq0KnsjXHF0k UyIKRcGcfwDEhiMUMuPJ7vXWUFeAc/woX5+sFwIDAQABAoIBAQCqUefzfiaIlHce M6nCGOyJ67ZrMca3ZV7XDB5/baI3QGvyx6nbILUmH3q4vLq8wOuLCSjKVl5SJO3/ 0A2CjK+sUPFswVXJaoHDFrJe+QXrAfw+99M5GVBXSof9VV1jbxqR5+nyaYo1YxAB RULRdsVkGDU28FqOHxJyHGLvSyPotwEbJErP6gXJeYPUpDmoN/aALAtr/9ENDiy+ hLWXgp3qLfs6LiWpQG3UV4/KCwU7fKzU68xtOdBzpxhSpHDoUD+2j1wfbp54LqlJ q5TDcoCZaehvev3NQwT2Puh4AlEZG4QTj70UXRcvxClUNENtr+jM1WiCQuph8jqf jXPPBZ5BAoGBAPJXWPnEtlcHycThj6ZrOIGSFyqPsRwBVxDQdmImNeFQOYmSVzzv TP27mEg1QFUUzceAMEDhcjdlkU/D8IbGkKvxwH77DKG6J+hwTRmwcQsin9DP02/W iIR6TrkJThNwAHSLSVF2TUyhovnAVLe3OlH8F3oTlvsjpTBYmtZXXTlRAoGBAOGW CJb+2kOMq8rFvudAWC+vJQUrgqb4UIbeeNNcY7XtLEuZQfVjYHQsYPq6yqnor2XG yvnnc5UuUHZ2gCdLXlnDYPd7FteSwZAkRD3+Bl7gp/ReuX2bSLD52BhAXYAptzBA t76qCqWAVLNMDK6x/yr7GsQC2S+5LXnlDhpN9LTnAoGBAJSQyeItHx+RjbdeFIOQ fc6pMfyMpKYniCmtsrWO+T8MwIk/Jq4bghaXF89EnhDKtTCVvH859pxRbtj4pQ7q 0iwnA7yUyXSoO+j6V7nk+hg6fME1d0i7u2uD05kKREwUQKMx9Ju1K8RL3y6/IvCR qnYyVm4nbkq92noeB6ZZXrRRAoGBAM+JHUv1GM5Oa3n4ZQIRM1BjPJa+Ccwc5NC/ eb9R3zXvBfJjA8iC7ajTb0EcefjI5hynP/ObWL2lR0dFC++aqinA0sO7zS70h/lZ NCMoQaol2r66KsKBCuYuZP0isiKHvk25LJJPk83g+4ucaoqJnSxoqZ4s1KzQGyNq dIgEsh1/AoGAZZJRrsiP/n+P2BRGfjOaJz8nAYsysH34qVPwE7uZnWC6JoKVRyt6 6gzlmVI11amly4oTtVWZu+fk39znYf/surZJoK4VHhQJWxCbDSjIbdBBYijjjtFG V9JJNS1Mwjxx8sFPrgZoBlJsiN1WPXRxW3dSftS2D2PU/Ct3w4QzeHw= -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
import time, string, random, subprocess from OpenSSL import crypto, SSL #openssl genrsa -out key.pem 2048 b = subprocess.check_output('cat key.pem', shell=True) k = crypto.load_privatekey(crypto.FILETYPE_PEM, b) r = string.digits+string.ascii_uppercase l = range(16) t = (10*365*24*60*60) s = 0 while True: c = crypto.X509() c.set_pubkey(k) d = c.get_subject() d.C = "ZZ" ; d.L = "ZZ" ; d.O = "ZZ" ; d.ST = "ZZ" d.CN = "127.0.0.1" ; d.OU = ''.join(random.choice(r) for _ in l) c.set_issuer(d) c.gmtime_adj_notBefore(0) c.gmtime_adj_notAfter(t) c.set_serial_number(s) c.sign(k, 'sha1') f = c.digest('sha1') if f.startswith('00:00:'): print(f) print(crypto.dump_certificate(crypto.FILETYPE_PEM, c)) if f.startswith('00:00:00:'): break
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