Extracting SSL/TLS Certificate Chains Using OpenSSL
Have you ever needed to add a certificate to your certificate chain, for instance when trusting a new self-signed certificate?
By running the following command, you'll get the full certificate chain for jvt.me at the time of execution.
$ openssl s_client -showcerts -connect "jvt.me:443" < /dev/null 2>/dev/null |\
sed -n -e '/BEGIN\ CERTIFICATE/,/END\ CERTIFICATE/ p'
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----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AhAwggIMMA4GA1UdDwEB/wQEAwIFoDAdBgNVHSUEFjAUBggrBgEFBQcDAQYIKwYB
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eS8wDQYJKoZIhvcNAQELBQADggEBAELD0yoT8J/gLzCbF0F9M1NRacNZ+ohPJgeI
yxRWyN9voZtj7FM1VzctSrtGms2PYG8nOpPASJWoTcb2d9ay1i70fuX01PvxliT+
Hgk8eDab/zXjtpuuWCrorGubdQVl28mde3MOk3pS2LnEI8+dBDODOhTn7OUE3QNb
F/SRwz8wGAU2o3mSq+Oy39/vFEST6N183s9fbIwNO4LvQ1AmqxTtsv5/6r7POFzp
7Ex4W1Gv4aWSaU3RfNpzF6Vr8p9lyiGaxM783FhEwx3uOMsiJdFHwd8yL/fSwyq4
hsIIiJDjGWpqXMTQFnu+sd/mxBIvkYFUHNCvErEd8Ot9f4K63Pw=
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIIEkjCCA3qgAwIBAgIQCgFBQgAAAVOFc2oLheynCDANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQsFADA/
MSQwIgYDVQQKExtEaWdpdGFsIFNpZ25hdHVyZSBUcnVzdCBDby4xFzAVBgNVBAMT
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wApIvJSwtmVi4MFU5aMqrSDE6ea73Mj2tcMyo5jMd6jmeWUHK8so/joWUoHOUgwu
X4Po1QYz+3dszkDqMp4fklxBwXRsW10KXzPMTZ+sOPAveyxindmjkW8lGy+QsRlG
PfZ+G6Z6h7mjem0Y+iWlkYcV4PIWL1iwBi8saCbGS5jN2p8M+X+Q7UNKEkROb3N6
KOqkqm57TH2H3eDJAkSnh6/DNFu0Qg==
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
As this is output to stdout, it is then simple to pipe it to a new file or create a more complex shell pipeline.
