neo4j SSL howto

Steve Stonebraker
May 2, 2013

Getting SSL to work with neo4j can be very frustrating.  The crux of the problem is that their documentation isn’t very robust.

Here’s what they don’t tell you:

Both the cert and the key MUST be in DER format!

example to convert a PEM formatted crt key to a der formatted crt key

openssl x509 -in server.crt -outform der -out server.crt.der
openssl rsa -in server.key -outform der -out server.key.der
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