#!/bin/bash # # RSA private key, SSL certificate, Diffie-Hellman bits files # ------------------------------------------- # Create an RSA private key, a self-signed SSL certificate, and some # Diffie-Hellman cipher bits, if they have not yet been created. # # The RSA private key and certificate are used for: # # * DNSSEC DANE TLSA records # * IMAP # * SMTP (opportunistic TLS for port 25 and submission on ports 465/587) # * HTTPS # # The certificate is created with its CN set to the PRIMARY_HOSTNAME. It is # also used for other domains served over HTTPS until the user installs a # better certificate for those domains. # # The Diffie-Hellman cipher bits are used for SMTP and HTTPS, when a # Diffie-Hellman cipher is selected during TLS negotiation. Diffie-Hellman # provides Perfect Forward Secrecy. source setup/functions.sh # load our functions source /etc/mailinabox.conf # load global vars # Show a status line if we are going to take any action in this file. if [ ! -f /usr/bin/openssl ] \ || [ ! -f "$STORAGE_ROOT/ssl/ssl_private_key.pem" ] \ || [ ! -f "$STORAGE_ROOT/ssl/ssl_certificate.pem" ] \ || [ ! -f "$STORAGE_ROOT/ssl/dh2048.pem" ]; then echo "Creating initial SSL certificate and perfect forward secrecy Diffie-Hellman parameters..." fi # Install openssl. apt_install openssl # Create a directory to store TLS-related things like "SSL" certificates. mkdir -p "$STORAGE_ROOT/ssl" # Generate a new private key. # # The key is only as good as the entropy available to openssl so that it # can generate a random key. "OpenSSL’s built-in RSA key generator .... # is seeded on first use with (on Linux) 32 bytes read from /dev/urandom, # the process ID, user ID, and the current time in seconds. [During key # generation OpenSSL] mixes into the entropy pool the current time in seconds, # the process ID, and the possibly uninitialized contents of a ... buffer # ... dozens to hundreds of times." # # A perfect storm of issues can cause the generated key to be not very random: # # * improperly seeded /dev/urandom, but see system.sh for how we mitigate this # * the user ID of this process is always the same (we're root), so that seed is useless # * zero'd memory (plausible on embedded systems, cloud VMs?) # * a predictable process ID (likely on an embedded/virtualized system) # * a system clock reset to a fixed time on boot # # Since we properly seed /dev/urandom in system.sh we should be fine, but I leave # in the rest of the notes in case that ever changes. if [ ! -f "$STORAGE_ROOT/ssl/ssl_private_key.pem" ]; then # Set the umask so the key file is never world-readable. (umask 077; hide_output \ openssl genrsa -out "$STORAGE_ROOT/ssl/ssl_private_key.pem" 2048) fi # Generate a self-signed SSL certificate because things like nginx, dovecot, # etc. won't even start without some certificate in place, and we need nginx # so we can offer the user a control panel to install a better certificate. if [ ! -f "$STORAGE_ROOT/ssl/ssl_certificate.pem" ]; then # Generate a certificate signing request. CSR=/tmp/ssl_cert_sign_req-$$.csr hide_output \ openssl req -new -key "$STORAGE_ROOT/ssl/ssl_private_key.pem" -out $CSR \ -sha256 -subj "/CN=$PRIMARY_HOSTNAME" # Generate the self-signed certificate. CERT=$STORAGE_ROOT/ssl/$PRIMARY_HOSTNAME-selfsigned-$(date --rfc-3339=date | sed s/-//g).pem hide_output \ openssl x509 -req -days 365 \ -in $CSR -signkey "$STORAGE_ROOT/ssl/ssl_private_key.pem" -out "$CERT" # Delete the certificate signing request because it has no other purpose. rm -f $CSR # Symlink the certificate into the system certificate path, so system services # can find it. ln -s "$CERT" "$STORAGE_ROOT/ssl/ssl_certificate.pem" fi # Generate some Diffie-Hellman cipher bits. # openssl's default bit length for this is 1024 bits, but we'll create # 2048 bits of bits per the latest recommendations. if [ ! -f "$STORAGE_ROOT/ssl/dh2048.pem" ]; then openssl dhparam -out "$STORAGE_ROOT/ssl/dh2048.pem" 2048 fi # Cleanup expired SSL certificates from $STORAGE_ROOT/ssl daily cat > /etc/cron.daily/mailinabox-ssl-cleanup << EOF; #!/bin/bash # Mail-in-a-Box # Cleanup expired SSL certificates $(pwd)/tools/ssl_cleanup EOF chmod +x /etc/cron.daily/mailinabox-ssl-cleanup