openssl_csr_sign

(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

openssl_csr_sign — Sign a CSR with another certificate (or itself) and generate a certificate

Descrizione

openssl_csr_sign() generates an x509 certificate from the given CSR.

Nota: Occorre un openssl.cnf valido installato perché questa funzione venga eseguita correttamente. Vedere le note nella sezione sull'installazione per ulteriori informazioni.

Elenco dei parametri

csr: A CSR previously generated by openssl_csr_new(). It can also be the path to a PEM encoded CSR when specified as file://path/to/csr or an exported string generated by openssl_csr_export().
ca_certificate: The generated certificate will be signed by ca_certificate. If ca_certificate is null, the generated certificate will be a self-signed certificate.
private_key: private_key is the private key that corresponds to ca_certificate.
days: days specifies the length of time for which the generated certificate will be valid, in days.
options: You can finetune the CSR signing by options. See openssl_csr_new() for more information about options.
serial: An optional the serial number of issued certificate. If not specified it will default to 0.

Valori restituiti

Returns an OpenSSLCertificate on success, false on failure.

Log delle modifiche

Versione	Descrizione
8.0.0	On success, this function returns an OpenSSLCertificate instance now; previously, a resource of type `OpenSSL X.509` was returned.
8.0.0	`csr` accepts an OpenSSLCertificateSigningRequest instance now; previously, a resource of type `OpenSSL X.509 CSR` was accepted.
8.0.0	`ca_certificate` accepts an OpenSSLCertificate instance now; previously, a resource of type `OpenSSL X.509` was accepted.
8.0.0	`private_key` accepts an OpenSSLAsymmetricKey or OpenSSLCertificate instance now; previously, a resource of type `OpenSSL key` or `OpenSSL X.509` was accepted.

Esempi

Example #1 openssl_csr_sign() example - signing a CSR (how to implement your own CA)

<?php
// Let's assume that this script is set to receive a CSR that has
// been pasted into a textarea from another page
$csrdata = $_POST["CSR"];

// We will sign the request using our own "certificate authority"
// certificate.  You can use any certificate to sign another, but
// the process is worthless unless the signing certificate is trusted
// by the software/users that will deal with the newly signed certificate

// We need our CA cert and its private key
$cacert = "file://path/to/ca.crt";
$privkey = array("file://path/to/ca.key", "your_ca_key_passphrase");

$usercert = openssl_csr_sign($csrdata, $cacert, $privkey, 365, array('digest_alg'=>'sha256') );

// Now display the generated certificate so that the user can
// copy and paste it into their local configuration (such as a file
// to hold the certificate for their SSL server)
openssl_x509_export($usercert, $certout);
echo $certout;

// Show any errors that occurred here
while (($e = openssl_error_string()) !== false) {
    echo $e . "\n";
}
?>

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User Contributed Notes 4 notes

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Sriraam ¶

9 years ago


config_section_section is incorrect. The correct keyword to use is "config_section_name".

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thomas dot lussnig at bewegungsmelder dot de ¶

22 years ago


Here is an sample how to create valid X.509 Public and Private Key (cert/key).
When not using self signed the 4.2.1 segault. You need the CVS code at least for openssl.

<?
Header("Content-Type: text/plain");
$CA_CERT = "CA.cert.pem";
$CA_KEY  = "CA.key.pem";
$req_key = openssl_pkey_new();
if(openssl_pkey_export ($req_key, $out_key)) {
        $dn = array(
                "countryName"            => "DE",
                "stateOrProvinceName"    => "Frankfurt",
                "organizationName"       => "smcc.net",
                "organizationalUnitName" => "E-Mail",
                "commonName"             => "Testcert"
                );
        $req_csr  = openssl_csr_new ($dn, $req_key);
        $req_cert = openssl_csr_sign($req_csr, "file://$CA_CERT", "file://$CA_KEY", 365);
        if(openssl_x509_export ($req_cert, $out_cert)) {
                echo "$out_key\n";
                echo "$out_cert\n";
                }
        else    echo "Failed Cert\n";
        }
else            echo "FailedKey\n";
?>

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eric at ypass dot net ¶

22 years ago


To generate a self-signed certificate, pass NULL as the signing certificate (2nd parameter).  For example:

$req_key = openssl_pkey_new();
$dn = array(
    "countryName" => "US",
    "stateOrProvinceName" => "Colorado",
    "organizationName" => "yPass.net",
    "organizationalUnitName" => "yPass.net",
    "commonName" => "yPass.net Root Certificate"
);
$req_csr = openssl_csr_new($dn, $req_key);
$req_cert = openssl_csr_sign($req_csr, NULL, $req_key, 365);

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Kai Sellgren ¶

15 years ago


You can use file_get_contents() to directly pass the content instead of giving file paths.

Also, if you get an error "sec_error_reused_issuer_and_serial", put a serial into the last parameter:

<?php

$privkey = array(file_get_contents('ca.key'),"your_ca_key_passphrase");
$usercert = openssl_csr_sign($csrdata, file_get_contents('ca.crt'),$privkey,365,NULL,'06');
openssl_x509_export($usercert,$certout);
file_put_contents('serverCASigned.crt',$certout);

?>

In that above example the serial was "06".

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