[Freeipa-users] Rekey Self-signed CA

Rob Crittenden rcritten at redhat.com
Fri Apr 11 00:30:37 UTC 2014


Greg Harris wrote:
> Rob,
>
> Thanks for the quick response.  It’s version 3.0, as included in CentOS
> 6.5 EPEL.  Yes, I’m running the IPA CA, installed as a self-signed
> setup.  By rekey, I mean generating a new Public/Private key pair for
> the CA certificate, and then subsequently rekeying all of the certs
> below.  Main reason?  Heartbleed.

No worries then. The IPA CA (dogtag) uses NSS for crypto so there is no 
way the CA private key could have been exposed.

If you've issued SSL certs from the IPA CA for services running OpenSSL 
you could re-issue those to be on the safe side, but IPA itself uses 
only NSS on its servers.

rob




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