[ovs-dev] [PATCH] ovs-pki: Reduce CA certificate validity to 10 years to fix 32-bit OpenSSL.

[Gurucharan Shetty]

On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

> Before I applied this commit, when I generated CA certificate with OpenSSL
> 0.9.8o on my 32-bit Debian system, I got a certificate that expired
> sometime in 1977.  This made all SSL-based tests fail with an invalid
> certificate.
>
> 32-bit time_t only extends to 2038, so this must be a bug in OpenSSL.
> This commit works around the problem by reducing the validity period of
> certificates to 10 years.
>
> CC: Gurucharan Shetty <gshetty at nicira.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>
> ---
>  utilities/ovs-pki.in |    6 +++---
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/utilities/ovs-pki.in b/utilities/ovs-pki.in
> index 1cf9274..cfcb831 100755
> --- a/utilities/ovs-pki.in
> +++ b/utilities/ovs-pki.in
> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>  #! /bin/sh
>
> -# Copyright (c) 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Nicira, Inc.
> +# Copyright (c) 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Nicira, Inc.
>  #
>  # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
>  # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
> @@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ certificate    = $dir/cacert.pem       # The CA cert
>  serial         = $dir/serial           # serial no file
>  private_key    = $dir/private/cakey.pem# CA private key
>  RANDFILE       = $dir/private/.rand    # random number file
> -default_days   = 36525                 # how long to certify for
> +default_days   = 3650                  # how long to certify for
>  default_crl_days= 30                   # how long before next CRL
>  default_md     = md5                   # md to use
>  policy         = policy                # default policy
> @@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ EOF
>              -newkey $newkey -keyout private/cakey.pem -out careq.pem \
>              1>&3 2>&3
>          openssl ca -config ca.cnf -create_serial -out cacert.pem \
> -            -days 36525 -batch -keyfile private/cakey.pem -selfsign \
> +            -days 3650 -batch -keyfile private/cakey.pem -selfsign \
>              -infiles careq.pem 1>&3 2>&3
>          chmod 0700 private/cakey.pem


There is one more place in ovs-pki that needs this change. (self-sign block)
Else looks good to me. I guess, it needs back-porting.


> --
> 1.7.2.5
>
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