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An easy way to verify the installation of SSL certificates.

Install the gem on your system

  gem install sslcheck

Use the gem with bundler by adding the following to your Gemfile

  gem "sslcheck"

The SSLCheck gem has a simple API.

First create a Checker:

  checker = SSLCheck::Checker.new

Then, check a url:

  checker.check("github.com")

Is the certificate valid?

  checker.valid?
  => true

Are there any errors?

  checker.errors
  => []

By default, connections to verify a certificate will timeout after 30 seconds. To change this behavior, specify your own timeout, in seconds, on the SSLCheck::Client class.

  SSLCheck::Client.timeout_seconds = 10  # A 10 second timeout
  checker = SSLCheck::Checker.new
  checker.check("github.com")

What are the details of the certificate?

The peer certificate found during the check is available with a rich (undocumented) API. See SSLCheck::Certificate for more details. A helper method is provided on the Certificate to get at most of the important details.

  checker.peer_cert.to_h
  {:common_name=>"letsencrypt.org",
   :organization_unit=>"Domain Control Validated",
   :not_before=>
    #<DateTime: 2014-07-25T00:00:00+00:00 ((2456864j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>,
   :not_after=>
    #<DateTime: 2015-07-25T23:59:59+00:00 ((2457229j,86399s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>,
   :issued=>true,
   :expired=>false,
   :issuer=>
    {:common_name=>"COMODO RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA",
     :country=>"GB",
     :state=>"Greater Manchester",
     :locality=>"Salford",
     :organization=>"COMODO CA Limited"}}
  => {:common_name=>"letsencrypt.org", :organization_unit=>"Domain Control Validated", :not_before=>#<DateTime: 2014-07-25T00:00:00+00:00 ((2456864j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>, :not_after=>#<DateTime: 2015-07-25T23:59:59+00:00 ((2457229j,86399s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>, :issued=>true, :expired=>false, :issuer=>{:common_name=>"COMODO RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA", :country=>"GB", :state=>"Greater Manchester", :locality=>"Salford", :organization=>"COMODO CA Limited"}}

What are the details of the CA Bundle?

Each certificate in the CA Bundle is available as an SSLCheck::Certificate instance if needed.

SSLCheck::Errors::Validation::CommonNameMismatch

Occurs when the common name supplied in the check does not match the common name on the certificate, any alternate subject names or match a regex based on the wildcard domain if the certificate was issued for a wildcard domain.

SSLCheck::Errors::Validation::NotYetIssued

Occurs when the certificates not_before date is in the future.

SSLCheck::Errors::Validation::CertificateExpired

Occurs when the certificates not_after date is in the past.

SSLCheck::Errors::Validation::CABundleVerification

Occurs when the CA Bundle (peer certificate chain) that is gathered during the connection to the server cannot verify the certificate. This is a very common error when setting up and install SSL Certificates and occurs when the web server is not configured correctly or the CA Bundle certificates from the certificate issuer were not configured or installed correctly.

A certificate is considered valid if the certificate is present, the CA bundle is present and all of the default validations pass.

By default, SSLCheck validates the following:

• Common Name matches (accounting for alternate names and wildcard certificates)
• CA Bundle Verification (can the CA bundle verify the certificate?)
• Issue Date (is in the past)
• Expiration Date (is in the future)

By default, all certificates are fetched by opening an SSL Socket Connection and grabbing the peer certificate and peer certificate chain (CA Bundle.)

A custom client should return a response that exposes the peer certificate, peer certificate chain and url that was fetched. See SSLCheck::Client::Response for more information.

  check = SSLCheck::Checker.new(MyClient.new)

A custom validator can be used to allow for additional validations or override the default validations. For more information see SSLCheck::Validator

  # passing nil as the first argument to use the default client
  check = SSLCheck::Checker.new(nil, MyValidator.new)

• Fork
• Run the tests (rake)
• Commit & Push
• Submit a pull request

• https://badssl.com
• https://letsencrypt.org

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Clayton Lengel-Zigich

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