Issuing Audit Signing Certificate with NSS

Overview

This page describes the process to sign the audit signing 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 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 audit_signing.csr \
   -o audit_signing.crt \
   -c "ca_signing" \
   -3 \
   --extAIA \
   --keyUsage critical,digitalSignature,nonRepudiation

It will generate the audit signing certificate in audit_signing.crt.

See Also

• Generating System Certificates

• Generating Audit Signing Certificate