Freeswitch TLS Sip

Setting up freeswitch TLS with a valid certificate authority was NOT as easy as it appeared from the beginning, I tried many different things to make it work, and finally I got it.

Here is the error we are dealing with:

tport_tls.c:1008 tls_connect() tls_connect(0x7f256800c9a0): TLS setup failed (error:00000005:lib(0):func(0):DH lib)

It took me a lot of digging, but I soon realized this had something to do with an untrusted certificate. I am going to show you how to use a trusted cert so you may use a program like linphone right out of the box to do TLS over sip in Freeswitch.

First Generate your csr and key:
My domain is ghostcall.io so I am going to use that. I am also assuming you have a tls version of freeswitch installed (I also did –enable-zrtp)

openssl req -new -key call.ghostcall.io.key -out call.ghostcall.io.csr 
openssl genrsa -out call.ghostcall.io.csr 2048

After you have answered all the questions you now have a csr file. I used http://www.garrisonhost.com for my cert, I picked DomainSSL I enterted the contents of my csr file into that site. After awhile they emailed me my crt. I copied and pasted that crt file onto my freeswitch server in my working directory. Here is where I ran into trouble. I also needed to include global sign’s (garrison host resells them) So I took to google and I found it.

https://support.globalsign.com/customer/portal/articles/1464460-domainssl-intermediate-certificates

I copied and pasted that data right into the crt file I generated to the bottom. I then needed to create the pem file.

openssl pkcs12 -export -in call.ghostcall.io.crt -inkey call.ghostcall.io.key -out call.ghostcall.io.p12
openssl pkcs12 -in call.ghostcall.io.p12 -nodes -out call.ghostcall.io.pem

That was it, I now had my intermediate cert placed into my globalsign cert.

I then just needed to copy the new pem file overtop the freeswitch default files:

cp call.ghostcall.io.pem /usr/local/freeswitch/conf/ssl/agent.pem 
cp call.ghostcall.io.pem /usr/local/freeswitch/conf/ssl/tls.pem 
cp call.ghostcall.io.pem /usr/local/freeswitch/certs/tls.pem

Then restart freeswitch

fs_cli
freeswitch@internal> shutdown
freeswitch -nc -hp

Then I checked it using openssl

Johns-MacBook-Pro-165:~ john$ openssl s_client -showcerts -connect call.ghostcall.io:5061
CONNECTED(00000003)
depth=1 /C=BE/O=GlobalSign nv-sa/CN=GlobalSign Domain Validation CA - SHA256 - G2
verify error:num=20:unable to get local issuer certificate
verify return:0
---
Certificate chain
 0 s:/OU=Domain Control Validated/CN=call.ghostcall.io
   i:/C=BE/O=GlobalSign nv-sa/CN=GlobalSign Domain Validation CA - SHA256 - G2
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIIE8DCCA9igAwIBAgISESFCbKusxwCioeFmdROTAYfwMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBCwUA
MGAxCzAJBgNVBAYTAkJFMRkwFwYDVQQKExBHbG9iYWxTaWduIG52LXNhMTYwNAYD
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0+2B9o2XE8vaicaXzQd9D7X5jOs=
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
 1 s:/C=BE/O=GlobalSign nv-sa/CN=GlobalSign Domain Validation CA - SHA256 - G2
   i:/C=BE/O=GlobalSign nv-sa/OU=Root CA/CN=GlobalSign Root CA
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIIEYzCCA0ugAwIBAgILBAAAAAABRE7wPiAwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQELBQAwVzELMAkG
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-----END CERTIFICATE-----
---
Server certificate
subject=/OU=Domain Control Validated/CN=call.ghostcall.io
issuer=/C=BE/O=GlobalSign nv-sa/CN=GlobalSign Domain Validation CA - SHA256 - G2
---
No client certificate CA names sent
---
SSL handshake has read 2567 bytes and written 456 bytes
---
New, TLSv1/SSLv3, Cipher is AES256-SHA
Server public key is 2048 bit
Secure Renegotiation IS supported
Compression: NONE
Expansion: NONE
SSL-Session:
    Protocol  : TLSv1
    Cipher    : AES256-SHA
    Session-ID: 9C6549620AE9AD553FC94C9037DE7A0B7803FDEEC48C7CF42424DA85BC4DA894
    Session-ID-ctx: 
    Master-Key: 48C5FB15D308BEFEDA79BC335E8C6F0B665628C56B3F8C12D2DA3BF9AA361C013F2769166F98E79F60D253B2089ABA1B
    Key-Arg   : None
    Start Time: 1425850510
    Timeout   : 300 (sec)
    Verify return code: 0 (ok)
---

I was then able to connect linphone and also Bria!

Obligatory video of it working…

Thanks!

–John

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