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Zhiyi Zhang edited this page Jun 13, 2019 · 1 revision

Instructions to deploy email challenge (Outdated)

  • Configure the ndncert email configuration
  • Configure the ndncert CA configuration
  • Try ndncert email challenge!

Configure the ndncert email configuration

You need to edit the ndncert-mail.conf to make email challenge work. To create ndncert-mail.conf, just run

mv /usr/local/etc/ndncert/ndncert-mail.conf.sample /usr/local/etc/ndncert/ndncert-mail.conf

You then need to edit the conf by run

vim /usr/local/etc/ndncert/ndncert-mail.conf

As an example, here is my ndncert-conf

[ndncert_smtp_settings]
SMTP_SERVER = smtp.gmail.com
SMTP_PORT = 587
ENCRYPT_MODE = tls
SMTP_USER = [email protected]
SMTP_PASSWORD = **that's my secret**

[ndncert_email_settings]
MAIL_FROM = [email protected]
SUBJECT = Email Challenge Triggered by NDNCERT
TEXT_TEMPLATE = Your PIN code: {0} Please keep it secret and type in to your application to finish the certificiate issuance process. If you do not know what is going on, please ignore the message
HTML_TEMPLATE = <html><head></head><body><p><b>Your PIN code: {0}</b></p><p>Please keep it secret and type in to your application to finish the certificiate issuance process. If you do not know what is going on, please ignore the message.</p><p>Sincerely,<br/>NDN Testbed Certificate robot</p>

Configure the ndncert CA configuration

You need to add Email as an available challenge from your CA configuration Here is my CA configuration:

{
  "ca-list":
  [
    {
        "ca-prefix": "/zhiyi",
        "issuing-freshness": "720",
        "validity-period": "360",
        "supported-challenges":
        [
            { "type": "PIN" },
            { "type": "Email" }
        ]
    }
  ]
}

Try ndncert email challenge!

Run ndncert ca:

ndncert-ca-server

The ndncert client side command line input and output

Index 	 CA Namespace 	 CA Introduction
0	/zhiyi/CA	/zhiyi/KEY/X%E9%A7ik%02%14%AA
Step0: Please type in the CA namespace index that you want to apply
0
Step1: Please type in the identity name
test003
Step2: Please select one challenge from following types.
	PIN
	Email
Email
Step3: Please satisfy following instruction(s)
	Please input your email address:
[email protected]
Step4: Please satisfy following instruction(s)
	Please input your verification code:
408529
DONE! Certificate has already been issued
DONE! Certificate has already been installed to local keychain

The email sent to [email protected] from [email protected]:

Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="===============5394734142355072363=="
MIME-Version: 1.0
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Email Challenge Triggered by NDNCERT

--===============5394734142355072363==
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Your PIN code: 408529 Please keep it secret and type in to your application to finish the certificiate issuance process. If you do not know what is going on, please ignore the message
--===============5394734142355072363==
Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

<html><head></head><body><p><b>Your PIN code: 408529</b></p><p>Please keep it secret and type in to your application to finish the certificiate issuance process. If you do not know what is going on, please ignore the message.</p><p>Sincerely,<br/>NDN Testbed Certificate robot</p>
--===============5394734142355072363==--
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