Openssl certificate fingerprint

Ruby
1

Sorry folks,

this should be a FAQ but I googled with no useful results. The standard
library OpenSSL RDoc is very poor.

I just need the Ruby equivalent of this command line:

openssl x509 -noout -md5 -fingerprint -in certificate.crt

that is: the md5 (or sha1 etc.) key fingerprint of an X509 certificate.

Thanks very much.
Guido

2

Hi,
the fingerprint is MD5 digest over the certificate in DER (binary)
form, so if your certificate is already in DER just calculate MD5
digest over it:

require ‘digest/md5’
puts Digest::MD5.hexdigest(File.read(‘certificate.crt’))

but if the certificate is in PEM format (the default used in your
command line example), you’ll need to either manually BASE64 decode
it, or let the OpenSSL::X509::Certificate do that for you, so:

require ‘openssl’
require ‘digest/md5’
certificate =
OpenSSL::X509::Certificate.new(File.read(‘certificate.crt’))
puts Digest::MD5.hexdigest(certificate.to_der)

or something along those lines…

zoran

3

Zoran Regvart wrote in post #949806:

Hi,
the fingerprint is MD5 digest over the certificate in DER (binary)

Great! Thanks.

G.