Thursday, June 24, 2021

Checking if private key matches ssl certificate

To check if our private key and ssl certificate matched against each other, we need to compare two command outputs:


1. Run below command against the private key
$ openssl rsa -noout -modulus -in private.key | openssl md5

2. Run below command against the ssl certificate
$ openssl x509 -noout -modulus -in server.cert | openssl md5

The output for both the commands should be the same, showing that the key and cert are compatible.

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