Issuing KRA Storage Certificate with NSS

Overview

This page describes the process to sign the KRA storage CSR and issue the certificate using NSS.

This page assumes an NSS database has been created as follows:

$ echo Secret.123 > password.txt
$ openssl rand -out noise.bin 2048
$ mkdir nssdb
$ certutil -N -d nssdb -f password.txt

It also assumes a CA signing certificate is present in the NSS database.

Issuing KRA Storage Certificate

Sign the CSR with the CA signing certificate with the following commands:

$ CA_SKID=...
$ OCSP=...
$ echo -e "y\n\ny\ny\n${CA_SKID}\n\n\n\n2\n7\n${OCSP}\n\n\n\n" | \
   certutil -C \
   -d nssdb \
   -f password.txt \
   -m $RANDOM \
   -a \
   -i kra_storage.csr \
   -o kra_storage.crt \
   -c "ca_signing" \
   -3 \
   --extAIA \
   --keyUsage critical,dataEncipherment,keyEncipherment,digitalSignature,nonRepudiation \
   --extKeyUsage clientAuth

It will generate the KRA storage certificate in kra_storage.crt.

See Also

• Generating System Certificates

• Generating KRA Storage Certificate