Cannot verify server certificate with OpenVPN

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sbb
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Cannot verify server certificate with OpenVPN

Post by sbb » Wed Jul 08, 2020 6:56 pm

Hello,
when i try to connect OpenVPN client to SoftEther server, i get the following error:

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Wed Jul 08 21:46:16 2020 TLS: Initial packet from [AF_INET]52.214.19.54:1194, sid=b97b9a2f a09ff915
Wed Jul 08 21:46:16 2020 VERIFY ERROR: depth=0, error=self signed certificate: CN=ec2-52-214-19-54.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com, O=sbb2-vpn, OU=dev, C=IT, ST=MI, L=Milan
Wed Jul 08 21:46:16 2020 OpenSSL: error:1416F086:SSL routines:tls_process_server_certificate:certificate verify failed
Wed Jul 08 21:46:16 2020 TLS_ERROR: BIO read tls_read_plaintext error
Wed Jul 08 21:46:16 2020 TLS Error: TLS object -> incoming plaintext read error
Wed Jul 08 21:46:16 2020 TLS Error: TLS handshake failed
Steps i have taken:
1- I have created the server certificate with the MakeCert command of SoftEther vpncmd utility, specifying ec2-52-214-19-54.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com as the Common Name.

2- I edited the vpn_server.config file replacing the ServerCert and ServerKey values with the ones from the certificate generated at step 1
(removing all newlines and blank characters)

3- I have created my OpenVPN config file like this

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client
dev tun
proto udp
remote ec2-52-214-19-54.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com 1194
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
remote-cert-tls server
cipher AES-128-CBC

verb 3
<ca>
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
...
...
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

</ca>

<cert>
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
...
...
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
</cert>


<key>
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
....
....
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
</key>


reneg-sec 0
4- (Not relevant IMO)
I have created a user for the DEFAULT Virtual Hub, and i have set a certificate for it. I have copied same certificate and private key in the
<cert> and <key> sections of the .ovpn config file, in order to enable mutual authentication.
But this certificate is self-signed

drkrool
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Joined: Mon May 25, 2020 4:38 am
Location: Quebec, Canada

Re: Cannot verify server certificate with OpenVPN

Post by drkrool » Mon Jul 27, 2020 3:17 pm

I can confirm that self certificate works in openvpn if that can help (the program works, it's just probably in your config somewhere)

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