Test OpenSSL Engine
Perfrom the following tasks to test the OpenSSL Engine:
In a terminal, run the following commands to set the required FXPKCS11 environment variables:
In a terminal, run the following command to create a new key pair on the using pkcs11-tool:
Enter the password of the identity configured in the fxpkcs11.cfg file when prompted for the User PIN.
If the command succeeds, the keys is listed in the output:
The command created one private RSA 2048 key with asymmetric sign and verify usage and one public RSA 2048 key with verify usage. The test OpenSSL commands in the next section use these keys.
This section provides several OpenSSL example commands, most of which use the keys created on the in the previous section. You must specify the pkcs11 OpenSSL engine in the commands that use keys created in .
The purpose of this section is not to provide an exhaustive list of OpenSSL commands that can be run using the pkcs11 OpenSSL Engine but to give a few examples of use cases and confirm that everything is configured correctly. See the OpenSSL documentation for the full list of compatible commands.
In a terminal, run the following command to output the public key from the :
If the command is successful it should output the public key to screen, similar to what is shown below:
In a terminal, run the following command to generate a file called clear_data containing random ASII data:
Retrieve the public key from the .
Encrypt the clear_data file using the public key retrieved from and output the results to a file called encrypted_data.
Decrypt the encrypted_data file using the -stored private key and output the results to a file called clear_data2.
Confirm that the contents of the clear_data and clear_data2 files are identical.
Example 3: Sign a data file using the -stored private key and verify the signature using the public key
Sign the clear_data file using the -stored private key and output the signature to a file called clear_data.sig.
Verify the signature using the public key.
A message should be output to the screen confirming that the signature was verified successfully.
Generate a self-signed CA certificate with the -stored private key.
It will prompt for information about the self-signed CA certificate. Once all fields have been entered, it will output to a file called ssl-ca-cert.pem.
Generate a CSR with the -stored private key.
It will prompt for information about the certificate. Once all fields have been entered, the certificate signing request will be output to a file called ssl-client-cert-req.pem.
Sign a CSR using the -stored private key.
The signed certificate will be output to a file called signed-client-cert.pem.