topic Re: Which SSL certificates are supported in Security

Which SSL certificates are supported

thscheidegger — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 06:07:48 GMT

I'm trying to set up our infrastructure to use SSL encrypted connections. For this purpose I want to use existing system certificates, which are all PKCS#12 certificates.
Can I use PKCS#12 certficiates directly in splunk?

Re: Which SSL certificates are supported

dwaddle — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:59:47 GMT

As I'm sure you're already aware, PKCS12 (aka PFX) is just a certificate container format. Splunk cannot use PKCS12 files directly, but they can easily be opened and split up into their distinct contained certificates/keys. Splunk includes the OpenSSL binaries, which have a pkcs12 command to assist with doing this.

Use splunk cmd openssl pkcs12 --help to get more information on how this works. Note this isn't a part of official Splunk - it's just an OpenSSL helper binary. Every OpenSSL installation in the world should also have this command, and there is copious information on the intarwebs about how to use it.

Re: Which SSL certificates are supported

MuS — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:11:02 GMT

Hi thscheidegger

just was able to load PKCS12 certs into Splunk using this excellent wiki article.

cheers