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6.3.3.1 Creating SSL and RSA Certificates and Keys using MySQL

MySQL provides these ways to create the SSL certificate and key files and RSA key-pair files required to support encrypted connections using SSL and secure password exchange using RSA over unencrypted connections, if those files are missing:

Sep 12, 2014 Verify a Private Key. Use this command to check that a private key (domain.key) is a valid key: openssl rsa -check -in domain.key. If your private key is encrypted, you will be prompted for its pass phrase. Upon success, the unencrypted key will be output on the terminal. Verify a Private Key Matches a Certificate and CSR. Generating keys using OpenSSL There are two ways of getting private keys into a YubiKey: You can either generate the keys directly on the YubiKey, or generate them outside of the device, and then importing them into the YubiKey. May 29, 2016 The most effective and fastest way is to use command line tools: openssl genrsa -out mykey.pem 4096 openssl rsa -in mykey.pem -pubout mykey.pub It’ll generate RSA key pair in mykey.pem and mykey.pub. You can also use them in your cryptography project using PyCrypto library in Python. Generating the Public Key - Windows 1. At the command prompt, type the following: openssl rsa -in rsa.private -out rsa.public -pubout -outform PEM 2. The public key is saved in a file named rsa.public located in the same folder. Generating the Private Key - Linux 1. Open the Terminal. Navigate to the folder with the ListManager directory. I am trying to generate RSA 1024 key pair (public/private) using the following command openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 1024 In the server.key file, only RSA private block is there, so where.

Mar 15, 2012 Demonstration of using OpenSSL to create RSA public/private key pair, sign and encrypt messages using those keys and then decrypt and verify the received messages. Commands used: openssl.

The server can autogenerate these files at startup, for MySQL distributions compiled using OpenSSL.
Users can invoke the mysql_ssl_rsa_setup utility manually.
For some distribution types, such as RPM packages, mysql_ssl_rsa_setup invocation occurs during data directory initialization. In this case, the MySQL distribution need not have been compiled using OpenSSL as long as the openssl command is available.

Server autogeneration and mysql_ssl_rsa_setup help lower the barrier to using SSL by making it easier to generate the required files. However, certificates generated by these methods are self-signed, which may not be very secure. After you gain experience using such files, consider obtaining certificate/key material from a registered certificate authority.

For MySQL distributions compiled using OpenSSL, the MySQL server has the capability of automatically generating missing SSL and RSA files at startup. The auto_generate_certs and sha256_password_auto_generate_rsa_keys system variables control automatic generation of these files. These variables are enabled by default. They can be enabled at startup and inspected but not set at runtime.

At startup, the server automatically generates server-side and client-side SSL certificate and key files in the data directory if the auto_generate_certs system variable is enabled, no SSL options other than --ssl are specified, and the server-side SSL files are missing from the data directory. These files enable encrypted client connections using SSL; see Section 6.3.1, “Configuring MySQL to Use Encrypted Connections”.

The server checks the data directory for SSL files with the following names:
If any of those files are present, the server creates no SSL files. Otherwise, it creates them, plus some additional files:
If the server autogenerates SSL files, it uses the names of the ca.pem, server-cert.pem, and server-key.pem files to set the corresponding system variables (ssl_ca, ssl_cert, ssl_key).

At startup, the server automatically generates RSA private/public key-pair files in the data directory if all of these conditions are true: The sha256_password_auto_generate_rsa_keys system variable is enabled; no RSA options are specified; the RSA files are missing from the data directory. These key-pair files enable secure password exchange using RSA over unencrypted connections for accounts authenticated by the sha256_password plugin; see Section 6.4.1.5, “SHA-256 Pluggable Authentication”.

The server checks the data directory for RSA files with the following names:
If any of these files are present, the server creates no RSA files. Otherwise, it creates them.
If the server autogenerates the RSA files, it uses their names to set the corresponding system variables (sha256_password_private_key_path, sha256_password_public_key_path).

Manual SSL and RSA File Generation Using mysql_ssl_rsa_setup

MySQL distributions include a mysql_ssl_rsa_setup utility that can be invoked manually to generate SSL and RSA files. This utility is included with all MySQL distributions, but it does require that the openssl command be available. For usage instructions, see Section 4.4.5, “mysql_ssl_rsa_setup — Create SSL/RSA Files”.

SSL and RSA files created automatically by the server or by invoking mysql_ssl_rsa_setup have these characteristics:

SSL and RSA keys are have a size of 2048 bits.
The SSL CA certificate is self signed.
The SSL server and client certificates are signed with the CA certificate and key, using the sha256WithRSAEncryption signature algorithm.
SSL certificates use these Common Name (CN) values, with the appropriate certificate type (CA, Server, Client):
The suffix value is based on the MySQL version number. For files generated by mysql_ssl_rsa_setup, the suffix can be specified explicitly using the --suffix option.
For files generated by the server, if the resulting CN values exceed 64 characters, the _suffix portion of the name is omitted.
SSL files have blank values for Country (C), State or Province (ST), Organization (O), Organization Unit Name (OU) and email address.
SSL files created by the server or by mysql_ssl_rsa_setup are valid for ten years from the time of generation.
RSA files do not expire.
SSL files have different serial numbers for each certificate/key pair (1 for CA, 2 for Server, 3 for Client).
Files created automatically by the server are owned by the account that runs the server. Files created using mysql_ssl_rsa_setup are owned by the user who invoked that program. This can be changed on systems that support the chown() system call if the program is invoked by root and the --uid option is given to specify the user who should own the files.
On Unix and Unix-like systems, the file access mode is 644 for certificate files (that is, world readable) and 600 for key files (that is, accessible only by the account that runs the server).

To see the contents of an SSL certificate (for example, to check the range of dates over which it is valid), invoke openssl directly:

It is also possible to check SSL certificate expiration information using this SQL statement:

< Cryptography

Download and install the OpenSSL runtimes. If you are running Windows, grab the Cygwin package.

OpenSSL can generate several kinds of public/private keypairs.RSA is the most common kind of keypair generation.^[1]

Other popular ways of generating RSA public key / private key pairs include PuTTYgen and ssh-keygen.^[2]^[3]

Generate an RSA keypair with a 2048 bit private key[edit]

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Execute command: 'openssl genpkey -algorithm RSA -out private_key.pem -pkeyopt rsa_keygen_bits:2048'^[4] (previously “openssl genrsa -out private_key.pem 2048”)

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Make sure to prevent other users from reading your key by executing chmod go-r private_key.pem afterward.

Extracting the public key from an RSA keypair[edit]

Execute command: 'openssl rsa -pubout -in private_key.pem -out public_key.pem'

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A new file is created, public_key.pem, with the public key.

It is relatively easy to do some cryptographic calculations to calculate the public key from the prime1 and prime2 values in the public key file.However, OpenSSL has already pre-calculated the public key and stored it in the private key file.So this command doesn't actually do any cryptographic calculation -- it merely copies the public key bytes out of the file and writes the Base64 PEM encoded version of those bytes into the output public key file.^[5]

Viewing the key elements[edit]

Execute command: 'openssl rsa -text -in private_key.pem'

All parts of private_key.pem are printed to the screen. This includes the modulus (also referred to as public key and n), public exponent (also referred to as e and exponent; default value is 0x010001), private exponent, and primes used to create keys (prime1, also called p, and prime2, also called q), a few other variables used to perform RSA operations faster, and the Base64 PEM encoded version of all that data.^[6](The Base64 PEM encoded version of all that data is identical to the private_key.pem file).

Password-less login[edit]

Often a person will set up an automated backup process that periodically backs up all the content on one 'working' computer onto some other 'backup' computer.

Because that person wants this process to run every night, even if no human is anywhere near either one of these computers, using a 'password-protected' private key won't work -- that person wants the backup to proceed right away, not wait until some human walks by and types in the password to unlock the private key.Many of these people generate 'a private key with no password'.^[7]Some of these people, instead, generate a private key with a password,and then somehow type in that password to 'unlock' the private key every time the server reboots so that automated toolscan make use of the password-protected keys.^[8]^[3]

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