AcmeCLI WildCard Certificate Can not be imported to IIS

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My domain is:WorldEducation.infi

I ran this command:acmecli --email jane.doe@example.com --email john.doe@email.com --accept-tos --dns *.worldeducation.info --test-challenges --wait-for-test:600 --answer-challenges --wait-for-authz --finalize --key-algor ec --key-size 256 --wait-for-cert --export-cert my-example.pem --export-pfx my-example.pfx

It produced this output: it creates .pfx file and and a .pem file and csr file

My web server is (include version):

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): windows server 2016

When I try to import the .pfx file to IIS 10 i got error certificate does not have a private key.

to be noted: .pem file size is 4 kb but the .pfx file is 2 kb

i need help to import the certificate to IIS & use it on my domain.

Thanks

Google search for import certificate iis.

Yes I know this process.i have done several time but the import fail with an error “The certificate doe not have a private key”

I have followed EBEKKERS ACMECLI process to generate certificate.

if (ExportPfx != null)
{
Console.WriteLine(“Exporting Certificate as PKCS12…”);

                    using (var cert = new X509Certificate2(LoadRaw<byte[]>(
                           true, Constants.AcmeOrderCertFmt, orderId)))
                    {
                        
                        await File.WriteAllBytesAsync(_statePath + "\\" + t.Host + ".pfx",
    cert.Export(X509ContentType.Pkcs12));
                    }

}
i think the above code is not generating correct .PFX file.

Hi @budheshwarnath

the import is critical. You must import the X509certificate2 with these options:

X509KeyStorageFlags.Exportable Or X509KeyStorageFlags.MachineKeySet Or X509KeyStorageFlags.PersistKeySet

into your webhosting certificate store. And you need something like

RSACryptoServiceProvider.UseMachineKeyStore = True

in your code.

Hi @JuergenAuer,
Thanks for your reply. No i am not importing the .pfx file through C# code.
After the .pfx file downloaded, I went to the IIS certificate Store, right click on it & then click to import.
After giving the .pfx file path and password and selecting the WebHosting as store when i click to import it gives me error “The certificate does not have any private key”.

Please suggest me if i can import the downloaded .pfx file in any other way.

Hi @budheshwarnath,

I tried running the ACMECLI project (which appears to be an example program inside the AcmeSharp project) inside a microsoft/dotnet container, using the parameters you passed.

Indeed, the exported PFX does not seem to contain the private key, only the certificate. I verified this by dumping the contents using openssl pkcs12.

So perhaps you can try another program or report this to the authors.

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What's the content of this Load-Operation?

Only the signed file sent from Letsencryt? If yes, this isn't enough.

This new X509Certificate2 must be matched with the RSA-Object which has the private Key.

Something like

cert.PrivateKey = _RSA_DomainKey

if _RSA_DomainKey is the RSACryptoServiceProvider - object used to create the public/private key pair and the Certificate Signing request.

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@_az,
Sorry for late response. Yes you are right,the above code does not export the private key with the .pfx file.

Now I have solved it in another way. I am putting it here if somebody is required.

I have changed the following code in ACMECLI:

case Constants.RsaKeyType:
certKeys = CryptoHelper.Rsa.GenerateKeys(KeySize ?? Constants.DefaultAlgorKeySizeMap[KeyAlgor]);
key = CertHelper.GenerateRsaPrivateKey(2048); // #chan333 add
using (var rsa = CryptoHelper.Rsa.GenerateAlgorithm(certKeys))
{
certCsr = CryptoHelper.Rsa.GenerateCsr(Dns, rsa);
}
break;

TO

case Constants.RsaKeyType:
key = CertHelper.GenerateRsaPrivateKey(2048);
certCsr = CertHelper.GenerateRsaCsr(Dns, key);
break;

then creating a Private key .PEM file

using (var keyPem = new MemoryStream())
{
CertHelper.ExportPrivateKey(key, EncodingFormat.PEM, keyPem);
keyPem.Position = 0L;
Save(AcmeOrderCertKeyFmt, keyPem);
}

and in the final code block of exporting .pfx file:

if (ExportPfx != null)
{
Console.WriteLine(“Exporting Certificate as PKCS12…”);
var certByte = Load<byte>(Constants.AcmeOrderCertFmt).value;
key = CertHelper.ImportPrivateKey(EncodingFormat.PEM,
Load(AcmeOrderCertKeyFmt).value);

using (var crtStream = new MemoryStream(certByte))
using (var pfxStream = new MemoryStream())
{
Console.WriteLine(“Reading in Certificate chain (PEM)”);
var cert = ACMEKestrel.Crypto.CertHelper.ImportCertificate(EncodingFormat.PEM, crtStream);
Console.WriteLine(“Writing out Certificate archive (PKCS12)”);

                        CertHelper.ExportArchive(key, new[] { cert }, ArchiveFormat.PKCS12, pfxStream, "chanchal");
                        pfxStream.Position = 0L;
                        Save(_statePath + "\\" + t.Host + ".pfx", pfxStream);
                    }

}

and then i import to IIS and it is imported and the wild card certificate working fine

Hope this helps someone.

@JuergenAuer
The content is:
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MIIFYjCCBEqgAwIBAgISBKPiklDHdHyuQzCEfOcyY6MbMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBCwUA
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-----END CERTIFICATE-----

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
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Thanks.

Yep, this is the content of the two public visible certificates (your own and the intermediate of Letsencrypt). These files never contains the private key of your certificate.

But now you can add the private key via code.

@budheshwarnath sounds like you’ve solved it but acme-cli is a demo for the acmesharpcore library and is not yet a mature acme client, please submit a PR (or at least an issue) for your suggested changes: https://github.com/PKISharp/ACMESharpCore/issues

You can also look at other windows clients which support wildcards such as certes (still a cli but arguably a bit more mature than acme-cli), Posh-ACME or https://certifytheweb.com (my GUI, which currently uses certes internally). Unless of course you love doing this kind of thing yourself, I know a lot of people like to do that :slight_smile:

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