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Import PFX certificate on PowerConnect 5500
I'm struggling with importing a TLS key and certificate on a PowerConnect 5548. Firmware is 4.1.0.21.
Page 188 of "Dell PowerConnect 5500 Series CLI Reference Guide" (Oct. 2013, Rev. A08) says "The certificate and key pair are exported in a standard PEM-format PKCS12 file", referring to a PKCS12 export; page 190 has an example of importing a PKCS12 file that seems to show a PEM-encoded certificate.
That's nice, but as far as I can tell PKCS12 is strictly a binary format. So what am I missing? How do I import my key and certificate?
Anonymous
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June 5th, 2018 05:00
It looks like you will need to use openssl to convert the binary to
Craig Putnam
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June 5th, 2018 14:00
So I had detailed reply written out, but the forum ate it.
The TL;DR version is:
1. There is no such thing as a base-64 PCKS12 file. Base-64 representations of certificates are, by definiton, PEM format.
2. After wasting hours on "crypto cert n import pkcs12", I am convinced that either the feature is broken, or it is so misdocumented that I have no hope of getting it to work. I'm going to write this off as a can't-fix.
nicoingrooves
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March 8th, 2019 01:00
After a bit of trial and error I was able to use the function:
1- Generate CSR and private key, openssl generate the private key as PKCS8
2- Generate Cert from the CSR in base64
2- Convert the private key from PKCS8 to PKCS1 (RSA), with openssl:
openssl rsa -in private.key -out private_rsa.key
3- Then on the import pkcs12 command past the cert base64 followed right after by the private key in the PKCS1 format then the line with the (.) and enter