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DanBig
Asked: 2009-12-16 09:42:11 +0800 CST

Using SSL with Openfire

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I'm having a rough time getting SSL configured properly on an Openfire install. Quite honestly, I just don't know what to do. It seems convoluted on the steps necessary to get a cert imported. Has anyone out there successfully done this?

I'm running Openfire 3.6.4 on Windows Server 2003 R2. I have a signed UC cert which is ready to roll, I just don't know what to do with it. I've been through tons of tutorials on converting between various format using openssl and java tools, but its only getting more confusing as I go.

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2 Answers

  1. I've done this before with a star cert, and it was horribly painful. If I recall correctly, I had to manually import it into the Java keystore using the java certificate tools and add my CA cert in the same way. I believe the correct certificate format is PEM for this.

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  2. .crt is not a format although its often used to indicate a certificate file. Microsoft do .cer files which are the same as .der and you can swap the extension happily.

    To convert from der to pem you can use openssl

    openssl x509 –in input.crt –inform DER –out output.crt –outform PEM

    Where did you get your cert from and what was its extension when you got it?

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