GOCSP-responder

README

gocsp-server

This is a go implementation of a basic OCSP Responder.
The two other options are:

1. openssl ocsp - does not support GET (safari) and dies on a request it does not understand
2. openca-ocspd - has memory corruption bugs.

It's a pretty simple protocol wrapped in HTTP.

Refer to RFC 6960: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6960

Building

This was confirmed building with Go 1.10.2, thought it was originally built with 1.7rc6. Your milage may vary with other versions.

1. Clone the repo
2. cd into repo
3. export GOPATH=$PWD (or just clone it into your GOPATH)
4. go install gocsp-responder/main

Features

• Supports HTTP GET and POST requests
• Meant to work seamlessly with easy-rsa
• Nonce extension supported (will implement more if needed)
• SSL support (not recommended)
• It works and doesn't have memory corruption bugs *cough* openca-ocspd *cough*

Limitations

• Only works with RSA keys (I think)
• Only PKCS1 (for keys) and PEM (for certs) supported. These are easy-rsa defaults

Tests

This has been tested and working with the openssl ocsp command, Chrome 55.0.2883.95, Firefox 50.1.0, and Safari 10.0.2. It should still work for newer versions of these browsers. I didn't test IE/Edge. If it doesn't work for those, submit an issue.

Options

Option	Default Value	Description
-bind	""	Bind address that the server will listen on (empty string is the same as 0.0.0.0 or all interfaces)
-cacert	"ca.crt"	CA certificate filename
-index	"index.txt"	CA index filename (openssl 6 column index.txt file)
-logfile	"/var/log/gocsp-responder.log"	File to log to
-port	8888	Port that the server will listen on
-rcert	"responder.crt"	Responder certificate filename
-rkey	"responder.key"	Responder key filename
-ssl	false	Use SSL to serve. This is not widely supported and not recommended
-stdout	false	Log to stdout and not the specified log file
-strict	false	Ensure Content-Type is application/ocsp-request in requests. Drop request if not. Some browsers (safari) don't supply this

Notes

The ocsp class is pretty much exactly copied from the golang.org/x/crypto/ocsp package. It had to be modified to support extensions so I just copied it in. I may submit a change request for their ocsp class at some point but for now it is modified for this package and included.